Word: mille
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...only theater offering at Harvard this week is an adaptation along the lines of The Belle of Amherst, Julie Harris' recent critically acclaimed adaptation of Emily Dickinson's poems. In a one woman show, Margaret Wolfit, a British actress, conjures up the characters in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, focusing on the intelligent woman's predicament in Victorian society. Performances are tonight, Friday and Saturday at 8 pm on the Loeb Mainstage. Tickets...
...dislike it," she says. Still, what else is there to call her? As chairman and principal owner of the Washington Post Co., she controls a $370 million communications empire that includes the Washington Post (see following story), the Trenton Times, Newsweek, five broadcast stations and 49% of a paper mill. The crowned heads of journalism and Government gather at her Georgetown home, weekend invitations to her Marshall, Va., farm are almost as prized as summonses to Camp David, and in a begrudging accolade. Women's Wear-Daily now refers to her as Krusty...
...Meaning of Species. As evolution created the process of sexual reproduction, whose reassortment of genes provides a vastly increased supply of genetic diversity for the mill of natural selection, it also developed species: groups of organisms that reproduce only by mating with other members of the same group, and not with members of other species. The evolutionary function of these fertility barriers is clear: diversity is necessary for evolution, but since a successful organism must have a reasonably balanced set of genes the diversity resulting from unlimited combinations from the pool of genetic material in the living world would...
Your academic footnote referring to an apocryphal 17th century English court physician, Dr. Condom, brings to mind the shy teen-ager who asked me for a prescription for "condiments" (from the French condire, to pickle, season or add relish to). Gerald C. Freedman, M.D. Mill Valley, Calif...
Both are Steelworkers, and both are running for the presidency of the United Steelworkers of America, the largest union in the AFL-CIO. There ends all similarity between Ed Sadlowski and Lloyd McBride. Sadlowski is 38, a scrappy Pole, a third-generation "mill rat" who feels that U.S.W.'s leadership is too close to employers and too distant from the rank and file. McBride is balding, 60, grandfatherly, a lackluster speaker, a defender of the status quo-and the apparent front runner. McBride has one thing going for him that Sadlowski does not: the backing of I.W. Abel...