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...make a monster, says Dr. Wolff, is to subject an embryo to violent changes of temperature or to inject it with drugs or chemicals. But this system gives the experimenter no control over the monstrosities that it produces. Much better, he thinks, are delicate operations on the embryo, either with X rays or microsurgical instruments...
...forgot one small detail-that the Joshua Liebman opus, Peace of Mind, was the grandpappy of them all. Any corny tendencies of the books you named were to be found in embryo on that old cob. Also, why not direct your diatribes at the voracious public appetite for junk...
...Suez campaign to Eden's failure to start the invasion ships from Malta until after hostilities had actually begun, to his belief that victory could be won by "aero-psychological" means, and to "the conjunction of America and Russia at the U.N., [which] smothered the debarkation in embryo...
Life Is Death. Wilson's invisible man, the Outsider, may be described as a blend of existentialist hero, religious man without God, and prophet or saint-in-embryo. His dilemma might be described as that of a man living under the conviction of sin who cannot accept traditional Christianity. In the lines of Eliot's Ash Wednesday...
...though I were never to write another," Proust wrote when he was working on Jean Santeuil. In a way, Proust was right. Jean Santeuil is primarily the trial run of Remembrance of Things Past. In it can be seen the fascinating spectacle of the great man growing in embryo-groping in the dark, exerting limbs that are still too frail to be usable, making movements that are uncertain and un controlled. Twenty years were to pass before Proust brought these beginnings to maturity (he died in 1922, before the last of Remembrance was published...