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Reversing the usual formula and coming to Boston after a winnowing road trip, "Anna Lucasta" is a relief from the glut of ubiquitous tryouts that usually dominate the Boylston boards. After long acquaintance, the cast has mastered its vehicle sufficiently to give a performance that is fluid throughout, practiced, but not off-hand. The difficult problem of presenting a prostitute with sympathy rather than derision is artistically accomplished and the mother's benevolent attitude toward her wayward daughter is made understandable, not ridiculous. The clash of wills between the unrelenting, religious father and his family is demonstrated so convincingly...
...response, John T. Edsall, associate professor of Biological Chemistry, outlined the uses to which the blood will be put, stressing the importance of keeping a supply ready for emergencies. During the war Edsall worked on the development of new fractionating processes which are now being used to make the fluid usable and relatively imperishable...
...situation on the labor front is what would be described in military dispatches as "fluid." In Congress, the Republicans, who hoisted labor legislation to a "must" position on the field of domestic action, are wrangling over what to do and how to do it. And while the Nation's solons wrestle with the hopeless task of trying to legislate labor disputes out of existence, the workers themselves are readying to do battle with their only really effective weapon--the strike...
...through to the brain nerve centers? Intravenous injections of anti-tetanus serum, for example, fail to check tetanus once the poison gets into the central nervous system. Dr. Stern decided that there must be a barrier (a filtering membrane), developed to protect the nerves and spinal fluid from harmful substances and most germs. She called this block the "hematoencephalic barrier...
...lasted so long: "People get smarter and so do we. . . . Every comedian usually thinks the whole world depends on each joke. . . . Actually the world doesn't give a damn [so] now we concentrate on overall effect. It makes us feel better and . . . you've got to be fluid in this business. You've got to get like jelly...