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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scientist, the announcement Thursday that a team of Harvard biochemists have artifically reproduced a mammalian gene for the first time was difficult to place in context...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: What a New Gene Can Mean | 12/6/1975 | See Source »

...novel is too long, and the problem of superfluous sections is evident. Occasional poems and the section from a journal of "One of the first English-speaking explorers to enter North Dakota" do not fit into the context of the novel. But the prologue which tells of a man, lying beside his wife in bed, remembering a childhood race, is one of the most vibrant ever written. The symbols of the book are carefully introduced, but the reader, after finishing the book, is left uncertain as to whether the prologue is Woiwode's autobiographical note or the true...

Author: By Louann Walker, | Title: Creer Chee, Creaca Chee | 12/4/1975 | See Source »

...examined by the well-known psychiatrist Kraepelin. He tries to stop her movements; he stands in front of her with arms outspread; he pricks her with a needle--all common tests for the reactions of the mentally ill. But if we take Kraepelin's acts out of the context of the clinical exam as experienced and defined by him, "how extraordinary they...

Author: By Chuck Stephen, | Title: Overdose | 12/3/1975 | See Source »

...Serravezza are Henry Moore's. The Manhattan docks have furnished both the material and the imagery for his work: the gray, salt-pickled balks of timber; their ponderous iron bolts, cleats and straps; the explicit logic of big practical structure. Pieces like Hankchampion (1960) are inseparable from that context. Its salvaged wooden beams, bolted together and strung with chain, are a homage to the plain speech of early industrial architecture. There is also a strong connection to abstract-expressionist painting. As James Monte points out in his catalogue essay, these weathered timbers were "a near-perfect analogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Energy as Delight | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...only in that context that the anti-civil libertarian features of S.1 can be understood. A list of a few provisions of the bill will make it clear exactly what type of threat S.1 poses...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: S.1 Must Be Stopped | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

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