Word: meshes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could adequately explain and criticize Jensen's piece, but even the layman can see some glaring intuitive and scientific problems. Jensen's scientific argument turns around two concepts derived from genetics: genotype and phenotype. Genotype refers to an individual's genetic makeup, his fixed gene structure. Phenotype means the mesh of physical traits which actually characterize an individual at any point in time--a combination of genetic and environmental influences...
...kill intruder rats; their amiable laboratory cousins merely sniff at strangers. Wild rats survive by their wits; captive rats can and do survive as near idiots. On the other hand, it is possible that the laboratory has produced a strain efficient in disentangling its toes from ½-in. wire mesh-definitely a survival factor in captivity...
...soon as she enters these men's lives, Charity becomes engulfed in romantic cliché and extraneous musical numbers. Romantic ballads (some not originally in the stage version), a marching ode to love, and production numbers concerned with psychedelic religions and swank night clubs simply do not mesh with the picture's original motif. Luckily, most of these songs are splendid in themselves--but the ultimate effect is one of uneasiness...
Dwight Eisenhower. Now he will be responsible for overseeing the development of domestic programs. How his mandate will mesh with that of Moynihan-who is a liberal Democrat with no personal ties to Nixon-is unclear. A division of labor could be established in which Burns concentrated on broad, long-range policy while Moynihan remained responsible for the day-to-day coordination of programs...
...really made a musical out of The Apartment--not yet, anyway. They've been able to work songs in here and there--some knockout numbers among them--but when the plot descends into the nitty gritty of suicide, recovery, redemption and love triumphant, the book and score don't mesh. There is even a sizeable stretch in the middle of the second act where the music disappears altogether...