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...EIGHTH DAY OF CREATION by Horace Freeland Judson...
...told the story better than Watson himself. His bestselling 1968 memoir, The Double Helix, was so witty and candid that Crick regarded it as an invasion of privacy. Why another traverse of the same terrain? Because, as Author Horace Freeland Judson makes clear in his extraordinary lay history of molecular biology, there is far more to DNA than Watson and Crick. Indeed, molecular biology's beginnings involved so many characters and subplots, so many false starts and flashes of insight, that it has all the elements of an epic detective story...
Meanwhile, the federal grand jury investigating Blanton's alleged misuse of his pardoning power announced that it has subpoenaed Murrel Pitts, Blanton's lawyer, and O.H. "Shorty" Freeland, the former governor's executive assistant, to testify this week...
...might say that about H.S.T. himself. Historian Richard Freeland, in The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism, argues that "the practices of McCarthyism were Truman's practices in cruder hands, just as the language of McCarthyism was Truman's language in less well-meaning voices." Charles Mee's recent Meeting at Potsdam portrays a vulpine Truman cynically deciding to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima to frighten the Soviets rather than to vanquish an already prostrate enemy...
Choreographer Cassie Freeland's imaginative staging blends well with Berlin's direction, especially the more subtle examples of pantomime (which, again, is all too often obscured from the majority of the audience). In several instances, as in Littlechap's sword-swallowing and bullfighting sequences, it is crucial that each gesture be seen clearly, no matter how small or unimportant it might appear. For only then can one recognize all of the nuances of Kolzak's and the other performances, which were also enhanced by a good orchestra utilizing numerous sound effects, all under the direction of Barry Cohen...