Word: gene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LIFE AND LEGEND OF GENE FOWLER by H. ALLEN SMITH 320 pages. Morrow...
...late Gene Fowler was a thinking man's John Wayne. In half a century behind the typewriter, he built a name as a swashbuckling reporter, a capable novelist, a prosperous Hollywood script doctor and a painstaking biographer of such romantic rascals as John Barrymore (Good Night, Sweet Prince) and Jimmy Walker (Beau James). In the course of his career he became something of a romantic rascal himself, a legendary prodigy in bar and bedroom alike...
...faculty oversight committee approved recombinant DNA research--gene splicing--at Harvard, but Wald, placing what he saw to be the community interest over scientific advancement, brought the issue before the Cambridge City Council. Wald's vociferous protests before the council resulted in a temporary city-ordered ban on the research. One Harvard proponent of DNA research says, "Some faculty members feel that it was incessantly self-righteous of him to invoke Mayor Vellucci's help when he couldn't convince committee of his peers to stop the p-3 facility." (The p-3 facility is the laboratory, now under construction...
...then Cambridge's fiery Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci got into the debate, and the fight was on. Some critics of the gene-splicing research argued that it could create new--and dangerous--organisms, while others said it marked the first major step toward genetic engineering, eliciting fears of modern-day Dr. Frankensteins...
...that, these worthies can consider themselves lucky: they have at least had some running about to accomplish. Poor Gene Hackman is required to play a Polish general as if he were a Polish joke, while Ryan O'Neal, as General James Gavin, looks as if he is about to inquire, "Tennis, anyone?" like a summer-stock juvenile. As a general whose troops are surrounded almost the minute they hit the drop zone, Sean Connery is suitably glum. Liv Ullmann and Laurence Olivier play long-suffering Dutch locals caught up in all this boom-boom in humble, long-suffering style...