Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes a man-or any other organism-grow old and die? Medicine doesn't know. Last week in St. Louis, Dr. Albert I. Lansing thought he might be on the trail of an answer...
...lower, unicellular organisms which reproduce by fission (splitting) do not grow old in the ordinary sense; they are "reborn" whenever they divide...
Stature for Solemnity. The New Look does not imply sophistication. Says Oscar: "The sophisticates have let us down." The theme of Allegro is a simple, minor-key faith shared by many Americans: a kind of puzzled sympathy for the puzzled ("Poor Joe! The older you grow, the harder it is to know . . ."). Oscar is a sentimentalist who is repelled by the materialistic din of big city living. One lyric in Allegro says bitterly...
...Theatre Guild told him that they were redoing Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs with a score by Dick Rodgers. Would he do the lyrics? He certainly would. After ten years of uncertainty, Hammerstein found in Oklahoma! the modern touch that "they" wanted. It consisted chiefly of a captivating simplicity that revolutionized musicomedy...
Fledgling Literary Critic William Barrett wondered whether his brethren had not been too quick to assume that the U.S. would eventually grow up and produce a culture of its own. Barrett recalled what a French monk in Carthage had told him when he looked in vain for relics of Carthaginian art: "They had none. They were not artists. They were business people . . . the Americans of antiquity...