Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Bennett is overseeing one of Chicago's main gambles-that science in the next 20 years will grow fastest in biology. Geneticist Beadle, who won his Nobel in medicine and physiology, is fascinated with how the brain stores and releases knowledge. "Is there a molecular coding system as in genetics? If we just knew what goes on here," he says, tapping his head, "think of the problems we could solve in society, in education...
There is another class which Wasson neglects: the scientists who are more committed to science than to the drug experience. Richard Evans Shultes '37, Lecturer on Economic Botany, for instance, has taken mushrooms, morning glory seeds, and many of the forty other hallucinogenic plants which grow in this hemisphere. Yet he retains his ability to discuss the drugs dispassionately in coherent sentences and in paragraphs unencumbered by rhapsodical exclamations. His article, an alphabetically arranged description of "Hallucinogenic Plants in the New World," is the first summary of its kind in a non-technical journal...
...which are scored circles and squares almost invisible to the eye. Miriam Schapiro, Brach's wife, shows a series of panels, similar in motif to Renaissance cassoni, or hope chests, in which she paints the fertility symbol of an egg. Over a three-year period, the egg forms grow more nebulous, less sensual, purer...
Lincoln Lab scientists watched the cloud by radar and saw it grow longer and longer as the thin wires separated. In about two months the wires should be evenly distributed around the earth, occupying a belt five miles wide and 25 miles thick...
...Spencer (MacArthur), the apple of all eyes, wants to go to college. Father Fonda is bound to get him there. Mimsy Farmer is bound to get him into the clover, but Clayboy is no playboy, and it takes many reels before she gets him to climb the mountain "to grow up." Parents who prefer their kids to learn about life in a setting other than the widescreen Wyoming hills would do well to follow the lead of Mother Maureen O'Hara who says: "Come along, children. We'll wait for Daddy back in the truck...