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...last, been found after many years to bring it out." As for the lurid passages which had caused the book to be banned in New York and Los Angeles, the Sunday Times critic dismissed them with disdain: "These descriptions, mechanistic and almost without eroticism, achieve a kind of insect monotony, like a boasting of beetles...
...Cage (by Jerome Robbins; music by Igor Stravinsky), the most important of the premieres, tells a story at once terrible and absorbing. The dancers seemed to represent female insects who introduce the young, forlorn Novice (Nora Kaye) to the mating rite and to the harsh insect code which requires the death of the male partner. Robbins' savage but striking ballet caused some seat-squirming in the audience. The big question: Is it really a tale of insects, or a parable of life among human beings...
Even if you don't like to indulge in or observe sporting events, or you find picnics unproductive and insect ridden, there is no reason to despair in the springtime. For spring is the variety season in Boston; there's more than a football game or a basketball fix to keep your interest up weekends. And you might get a particular high polish on your veneer of culture without any particular effort...
When primitive sex cells were placed in tubes containing the blood of a growing insect, the sex cells immediately elongated and transformed into spermatoza. Blood at this stage contains the hormone...
Proof of this theory was again found in insects. At the non-growing stage when the cytochrome system is absent (the pupal stage), the insect was found to be wholly resistant to diphtheria toxin. But at other stages, when cytochrome is present, the toxin caused an immediate cessation of growth and ultimately caused death...