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...waxed mustaches too wickedly. (In training for his major villainies, the parson's son also steals, pimps, and drowns a newborn baby.) Read's true gothic gift is for translating melodrama into a morality play: plotting on tabloid pulp paper while commenting on the finest India leaf. It is as a study of repentance that Read's story demands to be taken seriously...
...addition to its social and intellectual interest, aging is a personal concern. "Aging starts at birth," Leaf concluded
...Leaf stressed the importance of a comprehensive study. "A study of the aging process must deal with the social impact of longevity," he said, and added that an inter-disciplinary Commission could best insure that the study would take social as well as medical issues into account...
...Leaf said that he hopes that a preliminary series of aging seminars may lead to joint research in this relatively unexplored field...
Among popular theories of the aging process, Leaf cited the environmental approach and the concept of a genetic timing device. He outlined two relevant areas of medical research: a separation of the aging process from degenerative diseases such as cancer and a study of cellular growth in an attempt to determine the biological limits of life...