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...frogs," says the 57-year-old scientist, defiantly twirling his walrus mustache, "I see the entire universe." The more he learns about his frog-shaped universe, the more he worries about the human-shaped conscience. Biologists, says he in the current Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ask themselves whether they can improve on nature. "Who can fail to see the seriousness of this program . . .? What will happen on the day science will have given us the possibility of determining the sex of our offspring? . . . Was it not much easier to rely on unpredictable chance?" What about "therapy of the spirit...
...These frog-based problems ought to cause anxiety only in "traditionalist minds . . . All increase in human capabilities complicates the moral life . . . Let us beware, however, of ever reproaching science for the difficulties it has created for us. It is not recent news that living is more arduous for an adult than for a child." Dr. Rostand is no child, and his frogs are no tadpoles...
Course-choosing is always a problem and while some did their best to get all classes at 11 a.m. or later and not above the first floor of Sever, others jammed Biology 1 where 200 disappointed would-be frog dissectors were turned away. With only three main freshman, dormitories over 500 freshmen had to board in private houses; however most ate in one of the three Halls and attended the October smokers there...
Thus, as it had a hundred times before, the struggling frog of peace climbed a foot and slipped back a yard on the slippery side of the Panmunjom well...
After they had exchanged a few prances and roars, seven more brightly costumed devils strutted forward to shout their vain glorious boasts and be routed, one by one, by Michael. Envy ("I am the worst of the capital sins") wore a mask of interlaced serpents; Sloth was a yawning frog; Lust was masked by lizards. Last of all came La Diabla, the she-devil. With her seductive smile and flouncing skirts, provocatively hoisted as she danced, the tempting she-devil managed to give the archangel a bad half-hour...