Word: molecular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...genetic differences between individuals. Such research, the group has repeatedly maintained, is sponsored by the ruling orders in an attempt to explain away the poverty and oppression of the lower class by fixing its cause on inherent differences in the poor. Jonathan Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has been especially vocal in the dispute, although he says that the issue should not be confused with the personalities involved. It's not Beckwith versus Walzer, says Beckwith; it's the concerns of the people for the research they fund indirectly that is operant here...
These individuals overlap so that the structure of the novel, too, is ever-shifting, molecular, always replacing itself like plants growing and dying a billion times a second in a rich, dank forest--you can hear the process. There's something in the language that achieves this: short sentences appearing and vanishing like postcards and daguerrotypes. Doctorow doesn't invest his people with modern concerns like Gore Vidal does, in his historical fiction, adding sex and neurosis and perversity of motive. The grainy literariness of the ragtime people is inviolable--ladies constantly fleeing to the garden, derbies dotting riverside parks...
...Sargent Cheever '32, visiting professor of Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics and chairman of the Admissions Review Committee that suggested the change, said yesterday that he would implement the full report "with a bang" when he became director of admissions on July...
Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, said yesterday that the recent national growth in cancer research involving tumor cells and viruses that could spread disease if not properly handled has sparked the debate on safety standards for such experimentation...
FROM HIS sabbatical retreat in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., Nobel laureate James D. Watson, professor of Molecular Biology, offered further incentive for dumping on the kid, pressing Dressler to "stop working on this at once and turn your attention to something else." Of course, Watson was no impartial observer. He, Dressler and others were working from the same pool of National Institute of Health and American Cancer Society grants, and he himself had sponsored the articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, America's equivalent of the Royal Society. Watson's New York friends, he admitted...