Word: erasmus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soon De Jong was also convinced. That night he spoke with Albert Osterhaus, chairman of the virology department at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where virologist Eric Claas had analyzed the suspect virus using a panel of reagents derived from flu strains isolated and maintained by Webster. Claas had first determined that the virus was H5N1, well before the CDC and Mill Hill. At the outset even he did not believe it. An H5 infection in humans was unheard of. He too assumed the H5 was a contaminant...
...Tarzan plot in reverse--a very smart ape on the loose in London--is the most promising of the novel's inharmonious elements. Erasmus is an enormously powerful and intelligent ape of a species not yet discovered by human beings. He is captured and examined by a set of arrogant English zoologists. The wife of one, an alcoholic and depressive Danish beauty named Madelene, foggily sets a rescue in motion. Woman and ape then swing off, Tarzan and Jane fashion, to live in the treetops of a nearby zoological garden. London, in the middle distance, stands...
...gloomy illuminati who are most often unseen, though they worry a lot about people. Toward the novel's end there is a confrontation scene in which a dozen prominent (though frustrated and deeply saddened) humanists reveal themselves to be apes, and bid the dreary world of men goodbye. Erasmus delivers a sanctimonious homily of farewell: "Where we come from, we say that if a...person is on his knees you offer him your hand. If he rejects it you offer him both hands. And even if he rejects them both you have to help him up. But if, even...
...WEDLOCK OF MINDS WILL BE GREATER THAN THAT OF BODIES. --Erasmus...
...other about Poussin's religious life or the strength of his faith. Probably he was neither pious nor a freethinker, but a stoic who could, when required, perform as a remarkable religious painter, as the second series of his The Seven Sacraments shows. His early Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, 1628, sticks in the mind because it is such a singular combination of ferocity and decorum -- the torture of a saint by evisceration, a live man's guts being drawn out on a windlass, yet with the shock of the blood edited away or, rather, subliminally transferred to a cascade...