Word: inert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stanford's 1959 Nobel Laureate Arthur Kornberg and Biochemist Mehran Goulian began their historic synthesis with four off-the-shelf inert chemical compounds called nucleotides-the basic building block of the DNA molecule, which controls the hereditary characteristics of every living thing. To these they added one enzyme, DNA polymerase, that is known to promote the assembly of nucleotides into the typical helix-shaped strand that characterizes the DNA molecule, and another enzyme that closes the strand into a ring...
...imagery. He manages not only to realize his major characters and make their destructive interrelations both plausible and touching, but also to expose through visual analysis a contemporary emotional tendency as real as it is dangerous: Sally is a destroyer not because she is evil, but because she is inert, drawn constantly toward blank-faced sleep and nameless dreams. She is an ambulatory case of emotional paralysis, and throughout Sally's Hounds, she infects everyone she touches with that disease...
...must show an internal passport when he travels within his own country. A Russian spends much of his free time standing in queues, where he must push and heave to defend his place. Partly because of boredom, alcoholism is widespread; every park in Moscow has its nightly yield of inert bodies that are dragged off to sobering-up stations...
...teacher and executive vice president of Henry Holt & Co., has developed at the Harvard University Press a book list considered to be the best in range of topics and depth of study. He took over the press in 1947, at a time when President James Conant considered it so inert and expensive that he wanted to abolish it. Now it turns out massive works of scholarship, such as the Adams family papers, which may run to 100 volumes (13 have been completed), as well as topical titles like Edwin Reischauer's The United States and Japan. Its bestseller...
...last two are perhaps most important: "The white community is a very tough community, inert and satisfied. It simply won't do for a splinter group |such as the Negro| to be dependent upon a highly organized majority. When Negroes develop an institutional strong point, they have a right to make it their own. Five or six years ago. I saw the need for integration but not for the AAAAS. Now I see the need for both." Monro continues...