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This time Charles de Gaulle made his meaning crystal-clear. To his jammed audience of some 900 newsmen in the Elysee Palace, De Gaulle said that 1) Britain should be kept out of the Common Market, and 2) France had no interest in the U.S. proposal for a European nuclear force. De Gaulle recalled Britain's refusal to participate in the Common Market when it was abuilding, and charged that London had even tried to destroy the organization by setting up the rival Outer Seven. With obvious relish, De Gaulle explained why he thought Britain was unfit for partnership...
Stanley thus gave a crystal-clear answer to the question: What is TMV? Electron micrographs showed thin rod-shaped crystals, little more than a hundred-thousandth of an inch long. This answer raised an intriguing new question. Is a virus animate or inanimate, living or dead, animal or mineral? Dr. Stanley's way out of the dilemma is to broaden the definition of "living'' to include any particles that are capable of reproducing or replicating themselves. That covers viruses...
...shall nominate Arthur Freeman to charter membership. "Cambridge Seasonal" is an urbane, amusing, richly textured, and formal satire on Cambridge. The characters are old Cambridge ladies "in black woolens," young Cambridge lovers "who link, unlink, attach, detach," professors "with owlish eyes, benign white features, glossy skin, and crystal-clear clock-work within," a townie "with raw brown eyes, red hands, warts, weatherbeaten levis, and a real beery leer," and even a Radcliffe girl ("Something from Radcliffe cycles by"). And the consistently gentle tone and florid style of the speaker himself bespeak his own participation in "all that was lovely, false...
...Adrian, the "old, dangling" Sir Peter Teazle, and Cavada Humphrey, his young bride Lady Teazle. Adrian is a past master of timing and comic acting--a second "incomparable Max." And, as usual, it was a joy to watch Miss Humphrey's lovely carriage and to listen to her crystal-clear diction...
...usual, it is a joy to watch Miss Humphrey's lovely carriage and to listen to her crystal-clear diction. She knows how to say "fortyoon" instead of "fawchoon," and how to put the accent on the first syllable of "despicable," where it belongs...