Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Single-mindedly, the AIDS virus ignores many of the blood cells in its path, evades the rapidly advancing defenders and homes in on the master coordinator of the immune system, a helper T cell. On the surface of that cell, it finds a receptor into which one of its envelope proteins fits perfectly, like a key into a lock. Docking with the cell, the virus penetrates the cell membrane and is stripped of its protective shell in the process. Within half an hour, the strand of RNA and an enzyme the virus carries with it are floating in the cytoplasm...
This fall's production, Master Harold is about a 17-year-old South African boy in the 1950s and his relationship with the two Black, middle-aged servants who have raised him. The play was written four years ago and is a fictionalized account of the childhood of its author, Fugard...
...Master Harold, which opens in the Lowell House Lower Common Room November 13, marks the directing debut for veteran actor Kenneth W. Johnson '87. The Leverett House senior says he has wanted to see the play performed at the College since his freshman year. "It's set in South Africa, but can apply anywhere," says the Government concentrator. "The play subtly lets you see how racism is ingrained in an institution, how a young boy doesn't realize it and then how he has to confront it," he says...
...General Burgoyne is still complaining about the high rent of Harvard property and wants the University to do something about it," says Adams Co-Master Jana M. Kiely. "The University should provide affordable housing," Kiely, a part-time Cambridge activist, quotes him as saying...
...Eliot Co-Master Arline G. Heimert backs her students' claims. "There might be one or two lurking here, but mostly we have mice...