Word: faustian
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...which he calls Audrey Jr. and which, it happens, feeds on human blood. As it feeds, it grows, until it has spread over the entire store. Soon the notoriety of Audrey Jr. brings the little shop more business than it can handle. But there is a catch in this Faustian bargain: Seymour must oblige the plant's noisy demands to "Feed me!" by offering it the bodies of a derelict, a prostitute and a sadistic dentist. Will Seymour and Audrey consummate their love? Will Audrey Jr. devour them both? Will this outre material make for a good musical comedy...
...Russian Revolution, be "published in millions of copies and translated into all languages." Max Eastman said, "He had a reckless equilibrium in walking life's tightropes"; Walter Lippmann called him "one of the intractables," possessed with "an inordinate desire to be arrested." Max Lerner praised his "Faustian thirst for life"; Upton Sinclair dismissed him as a "playboy of the social revolution." Journalist and playwright, Harvard cheerleader and Moscow radical, consciousness-and hellraiser, Reed embraced contradictions as he ran like an Ivy League halfback through an archetypal American life-full, frustrated, tragically short. He knew everybody, did everything. His life...
...closing the door on compromise in the air traffic dispute, Reagan has indicated that workers have no right to move the mountain of management on their own terms. He has forced a Faustian decision upon American labor--cooperate or take your chances. PATCO gambled and lost...
...course, is proposing that politicians legislate scientific restricitons for universities. "In all of this, there has never been an indication that Congress would intervene directly, only through encouraging schools to keep track of what they are getting into," says an aide to Gore. And when the emotional speeches about Faustian dilemmas give way to policy making, universities may well end up having things as they wish. Before she took her position with the NIH. Doris Merritt served as dean for research at Indiana University, and, like most government officials with an academic background, she still trusts the scientific community...
...everybody is rooting for the gene splicers to achieve their goals. Were they to do so, they would possess truly Faustian power, not only to make repairs when genetic machinery goes awry, as in such diseases as hemophilia and sickle-cell anemia, but to "improve" the species itself. There may be perils in disturbing a microbial balance that has been billions of years in the making with strange, new man-made bugs. Asks Biologist Robert Sinsheimer, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz: "Do we really wish to replace the fateful but impartial workings of chance with...