Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...isolate the represser, Biophysicist Walter Gilbert and Biochemist Benno Muller-Hill decided to work with a species of simple bacteria called Escherichia coli, which have a healthy appetite for lactose, a sugar found in milk. The scientists knew that when lactose was available, the bacteria cells produced an enzyme that broke the sugar down into two simpler sugars that the cells could use. When only other nutrients were present, however, the amount of this enzyme was drastically reduced; a repressor apparently turned off the gene that controlled its production...
...work of Gilbert and Sullivan is opera as everyone would have it -- uproarious dialogue peppered with concise musical numbers and plagued by a minimum of operatic filler. Sullivan's melodies are captivating in their exquisite sentimentality and catchy enough for everyone to sing along...
Yeomen was no less exciting dramatically than it was musically. Randall Darwell's set is a gallant attempt at reproducing the grim masonry of the Tower of London. Steve Michales' direction was excellent, although at times a questionable rendering of Yeomen the way Gilbert had intended it. The G&S Players have a tradition of making the plays funnies and livelier than the recordings would indicate, sometimes funnier than they are. Michales' conception tended toward the slapstick and away from the sentimental element -- which, let's face it, is there...
Sullivan's music may be warmed-over Mendelssohn, but this Yeomen was anything but warmed-over Gilbert and Sullivan. As usual, the players took a work that is generally regarded as a museum piece and made it into living musical theatre...
...made clear by this week's cover story on birth control and "the pill." The article traces the history of "the pill" over two decades of trial and error; it deals with its medical aspects as well as with its moral and social implications. It was written by Gilbert Cant, TIME's Medicine writer for 18 years, edited by Peter Bird Martin and researched by Jean Bergerud, with the help of many TIME correspondents. The cover picture is the work of Photographer Robert S. Crandall, who assembled most of the currently available pills into a shape representing...