Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letters at Harvard, Mr. Leonard laments the eclipse of Thomas Wolfe, who, it is affimed, had Something to Say. I am at present re-reading Look Homeward Angel: mere plot will not do! There is a prevalent cliche that writers like James, who concerned themselves deeply over this method, have less to say than the ravenous Wolfes of this world. May I suggest to Mr. Leonard that a sympathetic reading of Wings of the Dove would reveal to him much more about Human Nature, Morality, the Structure of Society, Psychology, and such like than the whole Wolfe corpus.... --Arnold...
...misshapen limbs. In some cases these defects are inherited in a Mendelian manner, like the color of Mendel's flowers. Some traits are dominant, others recessive. They are caused by mutations (damaged genes) in the flies' chromosomes (they have only four pairs), and Morgan's method was to study every possible way that mutations could be passed from generation to generation...
Mutated Mold. The Beadle and Tatum plan for Neurospora was to try to create strains that differ from the normal mold in simple, chemical ways. Their method was simple, too. They irradiated mold with X rays to induce mutations. Then they gathered spores formed by sexual reproduction and laid them out on a sheet of agar jelly containing the minimum nutrients that natural wild mold requires. Some of the spores sprouted and grew normally, showing that they had not been mutated in any obvious way. Some were dead, perhaps mutated too much...
Died. Rudolph von Laban, 78, Hungarian-born choreographer, teacher and theorist of the dance, deviser of Labanotation, the first widely accepted, effective method of recording dance movements on paper; in London...
Using a complicated mathematical method, Dr. Stuckert constructs a "genetic probability table" that shows the changing composition of the population since 1750. To do this he assumes that "the probability of persons classified as white mating with persons classified as Negro is one-twentieth of what would be expected if mating were random." In a population with 90% white and 10% Negro, for example, the probability of mixed matings works out at 9 per 1,000. Dr. Stuckert admits that this figure cannot be exact, but he says it agrees with many sociological studies. His other figures (e.g., immigration...