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...Douglas Allanbrook '48 played the piano reduction of his Ethan Frome for Aaron Copland, who tentatively promised to give the opera a New York premiere after requesting a second play-through. Soon after, however, Copeland finished his own Tender Land, which he produced instead. "Immensely proud" and wanting "the Met or nothing," Allanbrook shelved the score and moved onto other projects, not wanting to waste time selling the piece when he could be writing others. So, for nearly 50 years following its composition, the opera lay unproduced and unpremiered while Allanbrook wrote other pieces and carried on his busy life...
...would quickly change to lithium, another medication used to treat bipolar disorder--and started telling friends that she and Vili were truly in love. "Since when do people who love each other have to defend it?" she would ask. She quarreled with her court-approved treatment counselor, Terry Copeland, who in 15 years had never seen a sex offender in his care return to prison for committing another sex offense. He has counseled more than...
That work, which has appeared mostly in scientific journals, has been gathered into an accessible and quite readable form in Hamer's provocative new book, Living with Our Genes (Doubleday; $24.95). "You have about as much choice in some aspects of your personality," Hamer and co-author Peter Copeland write in the introductory chapter, "as you do in the shape of your nose or the size of your feet...
...this be? After all, as Hamer and Copeland observe in their book, "...genes are not switches that say 'shy' or 'outgoing' or 'happy' or 'sad.' Genes are simply chemicals that direct the combination of more chemicals." What genes do is order up the production of proteins in organs like the kidney, the skin and also the brain. Thus, Hamer speculates, one version of the novelty-seeking gene may make a protein that is less efficient at absorbing dopamine. Since dopamine is the chemical that creates sensations of pleasure in response to intense experiences, people who inherit this gene might seek...
...worst pain inflicted by the louse may be psychological, the disgust and embarrassment of discovering that one's head is an ecosystem for insects. "It is a very traumatic experience," says Copeland, whose daughter suffered from head lice while attending an upscale girls' school in San Francisco. "I think it goes back to some primitive reaction. We just go crazy with lice...