Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bacillus play from rats to fleas to man; men usually catch it not from flea bites, but from rubbing flea vomit or feces into the skin. Science tries to kill the rats by new, powerful poisons like "1080," the fleas with DDT (see above), attack the disease itself with modern medicines and vaccines...
...Lamb, Iowa State's Carlson, Illinois' Nordsieck, Washington's Uehling. (Brother Frank, the original Oppie apprentice, is now a physicist at the University of Minnesota.) Says Nobel Prizewinner Robert Millikan: "Oppenheimer developed at Berkeley an outstanding school of theoretical physics, and its products are leaders of modern physics today...
...Sense of Sin. Los Alamos and its aftermath left him with "a legacy of concern." Two years later Oppenheimer told his fellow physicists that their weapon had "dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose...
...Modern man, always looking for the elusive "missing link" (more properly, a common ancestor of apes and men), has been digging up these fossils for a quarter of a century. With each new find he has been thinking a little better of his second cousins, 50,000 times removed...
...that led his early biographers to consider him hardhearted. Mary Meredith wandered from place to place, unhappy and alone; her husband was relentless until just before her death, when he allowed their son to visit her. Out of the tragedy of their life, Meredith fashioned the stylized poetic sequence, Modern Love, fifty 16-line sonnets of what Sassoon calls "highly perfected workmanship, constructed as a finely woven monodrama, and abounding in memorable passages and variety of mood." Poet Sassoon had thought that it must have taken him at least three years to finish the work; to his astonishment, he learned...