Word: monkeys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Piano, Cat's Cradle, God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine, Mother Night, and The Sirens of Titan); periodic short stories that keep popping up in magazines like Playboy and science fiction anthologies like Tomorrow, the Stars; a book of collected short stories called Welcome to the Monkey-house; and a new novel out this spring called The Slaughterhouse Five, the first two chapters of which were recently printed in Ramparts...
...late-show watchers remember Spencer Tracy's bravura portrayal of Clarence Darrow and Fredric March's performance as William Jennings Bryan in the movie Inherit the Wind, a reenactment of the 1925 Scopes "monkey trial." That classic courtroom confrontation seemed to come from another era, a benighted past when a 24-year-old substitute biology teacher named John T. Scopes was actually indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee schoolroom. But that era was not so distant after...
...attenuated, it is still alive. This, he said, would be the first live-virus vaccine against any disease ever licensed to be given by injection. (The Sabin live-virus polio vaccine is taken by mouth.) Plotkin also noted that some lines of HPV-77 are grown in cultures of monkey-kidney cells, which may be contaminated by other, and dangerous, viruses. Not surprisingly, Wistar has its own vaccine, also live-virus but grown in cultures of human cells and therefore free of animal viruses. This, said Plotkin, has the further advantage that it can be given in the form...
...other suits that question the Selective Service System's power to use the draft as punishment for antiwar activities are currently pending in federal courts. Also under attack this year are capital-punishment laws, a federal.law requiring marijuana dealers to register with the Government and an Arkansas "monkey" law that forbids the teaching of evolution in the schools of that state...
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. A collection of short stories and essays in which the author, posing as a mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine, explores the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine perplex...