Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumors flew fast and wild. Was it a subterranean eruption fouling the Gulf with sulphurous poisons? Darling examined samples of the water under a low-powered microscope. He reported that the water seemed full of "waltzing mice": thousands of fast-moving organisms which "seem to accomplish their swimming by a whirling motion." He made sketches and sent them to Washington...
...unschooled ear, the harpsichord jangles like a regiment of mice scurrying through a pile of coins. But its connoisseurs find in the harpsichord rarefied and rustling harmonies, comparable to a choir of flutes and mandolins. When Landowska began, nobody was writing harpsichord music; it was a dead art. Composers like Francis Poulenc (her student for a year) and the late Manuel De Falla wrote harpsichord music for her. Said she: "It was a battle, you have no idea what a battle it was, to impose the harpsichord upon the musical world. When I started before 1900, the tradition...
...piqued into trying it with mine. The experiment went well until the reading of Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County (which county, incidentally, we Westerners seem unable to pronounce).* At that point, the wildest of bacchanalian orgies ensued. At length, after recovering from shock, I relegated the mice to an unused bird cage and covered the whole disagreeable scene with one of my old sweatshirts...
...what's more, the mice lie immobile to any music except Debussy's Danse Sacree and Danse Profane, and then only come to life midway through the opus...
Genes Not All. This classical explanation of heredity, taught in every biology textbook, is not wholly satisfactory. Some cells, notably certain cancer cells in mice, seem to develop oddly, defying their hereditary genes. At Indiana University, Dr. Tracy M. Sonneborn found that the one-celled animal paramecium sometimes did this...