Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until last spring, when Yoshimitsu was 21 and had reached a basketball coach's dream height of 7 ft. 2 in., did he get to a specialist (on a newsman's intervention). Said Dr. Kentaro Shimizu (5 ft. 4 in.), one of Tokyo's top brain surgeons: "These cases are so uncommon that any specialist would be happy to treat one." Installed in a specially built bed (8 ft. 6 in.) and swathed in a vast yukata (summer kimono) Yoshimitsu was X-rayed and tested to a fare-thee-well...
...Beadle teamed up with Dr. Edward L. Tatum, a chemist now of the Rockefeller Institute, and selected a new laboratory victim, the so-called red bread mold (Neurospora crassa), which is really a beautiful coral pink in its natural state, unmolested by geneticists. Neurospora is a geneticist's dream. When properly introduced, it mates and reproduces sexually. It also grows nonsexually, so a truckload of mold with the same heredity can be grown, if desirable, from a single spore. But the best thing about Neurospora is that it asks for so little. It thrives on a medium containing nothing...
...broom-bottom blonde from North Dakota's School of Co-ed Agriculture--began her first week of Harvard's summer session with a stroll. The day was heavy with clouds and traffic and disillusion, a time of ivory idols crumbling and tears in the lemonade. For Portia's dream died hard...
...stuff and stench of animal husbandry. She had mastered the chemistry of manure and the physics of the plow. She had emerged from North Dakota Ag (crossing a calf with a jumping bean for ready-made cheese) summa cum laude. And all those years she had nourished a dream...
...waited--through thrice-weekly seminars in nurtured alfalfa and required junior tutorial on irrigation and canning preserves. And all the while there had been the dream of someday coming East, of walking up Brattle Street in a pair of Bermuda shorts, of bookshops and bohemians and coffee-house jazz. Today it had all come true...