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Because snails are carriers of the blood fluke that causes schistosomiasis, a disease on the rampage in Egypt, parasitologists are growing 20 varieties of snails in order to test 3,000 chemicals that might kill the fluke. Tropical virologists grow many kinds of mosquitoes to bite size, to study what subspecies can transmit such diseases as yellow fever and eastern equine encephalitis, a form of sleeping sickness that periodically reaches epidemic strength in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Louisiana. "Problems-nothing but problems," says Dr. G. Robert Coatney. "In nature mosquitoes grow without any trouble, but when we try to raise...
...strict Aristotelian, Shakespeare is a kind of monumental fluke of genius, and Steiner skillfully covers a century of frantic effort among playwrights and critics to make Shakespeare and Sophocles compatible within the house of tragedy. The zenith of the neoclassic movement was Racine, and Steiner makes a powerful case for him as the last bona fide playwright of tragedy. The fact remains that Racine's greatest play, Phedre, draws half its impact from the Greek myth and Euripidean play on which it is based...
Tough Tenors: The Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet (Jazz-land). Two saxmen of the hard-bop persuasion trade heated solos like a couple of alternately firing spark plugs. Most successful combustions: Funky Fluke, a scrambling exercise in sheer speed, and the old favorite, Tickle...
...twisted by just such institutions; if they were white, the stories would still make their point. A Drink in the Passage carries Paton's message to his goal. It is really an eloquent, understated editorial with none of the easy indignation of the professional editorial writer. Through a fluke, a Negro sculptor has won a first prize, for a moving sculpture of a black mother and child. Because of it he is surreptitiously taken to a white man's home-an action forbidden by law -and given a drink with the family. There, unspoken, he finds sympathy...
Tell me, was it just a fluke...