Word: linus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company will keep the machinery of dissent from running on empty by raising money with benefit concerts. But the members of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility are supplying much of the movement's intellectual firepower. Among them are Lewis Mumford, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and four Nobel Laureates: Linus Pauling; James D. Watson; George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus; and Harold Urey...
Joining Horner should be tight end Chuck Marshall, a small but skilled returning letterman and another varsity baseball player. Linus O'Donnell, a powerful 6-5, 240-lb, tight end candidate, has been sidelined with leg problems; and Restic said he doesn't know when O'Donnell might be able to get back on the field...
...leaves Harvard with the job of reconstructing the backfield. Jon Hollingsworth, Chuck Sandor and Tom Beatrice all are contenders; but all are fairly inexperienced. Receivers Rich Horner looks like one of the Ivy League's top receivers. Letterman Chuck Marshall looks good at tight end, but he is small. Linus O'Donnell, at 6-5, 240, could be a powerhouse; but he is injured. Experience is scarce. Defensive line Five returning lettermen form a fairly solid, good-sized line, especially with Chuck Durst and Tim Palmer in the middle. Also, Steve Hollman at middle guard. Loss of end Marko Coric...
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, historian (Amherst College): Linus Pauling has provided leadership in an almost 18th century fashion by combining great distinction in scientific inquiry and in the moral arena. The second figure who has steadily, over a long and distinguished career, held up to our people a spectacle of greatness is Archibald MacLeish. He has inspired generations of Americans to a love of literature and of philosophy...
Though in awe of his heroes, Judson is not blind to their egomanias and foibles. Watson is "markedly bright and never accustomed to hide the fact." Linus Pauling, a fount of chemical wis dom and occasional foolishness, has "un quenchable self-confidence." Biochemist Erwin Chargaff, bypassed by the DNA revolution, is "the man of mordant dissent." But in the main, the author is content to take the role of acolyte, bombarding his gifted tutors with questions, some incisive, others pointedly rhetorical. As Judson plays student to Nobel Laureates Crick and Perutz, so does the reader, who, if patient enough...