Word: mutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presumably, reborn or transfigured into an embryo-baby enclosed in a sphere in our own solar system, watching Earth. He has plainly become an integral part of the cosmos, perhaps as Life suggests, as a "star-child" or, as Penelope Gilliatt suggests, as the first of a species of mutant that will inhabit the Earth and begin to grow. What seemed a linear progression may ultimately be cyclical, in that the final effect of the monolith on man can be interpreted as a progress ending in the beginning of a new revolutionary cycle on a vastly higher plane...
...discussion of ranking must inevitably concern itself with the larger question of student deferments. One SDS student described the relationship this way: "Ranking is the mutant off-spring of a deformed parent -- 2-S." A majority of the delegates at the conference agreed...
...recent mutant, oat rust 264, has been one of the nastiest of all, defying all efforts at control. Now, after a long search, the Israeli scientist who first identified the virulent fungus back in 1953 has not only found a wild strain of 264-proof oats, he has a plan that will enable farmers to prepare for the inevitable appearance of the next new deadly mutant...
They were fed cheese from at least two continents and two punches -- a claret and a sauterne. The crackers were straight from Cahaly's (Ritz, mainly, and a mutant potato chip or two); the dip was no-nonsense mayonaise, made aristocratic with parsely...
...slope at 60 m.p.h., or drop a brace of partridge as deftly as a skeet cham pion. He rides like Lochinvar, golfs near par on any course, and betweentimes collects rare books and Oriental art. On his experimental farm outside the ancient capital of Kabul, he raises mutant grapes, outsize apricots, and dairy cattle that can withstand the rigors of Afghan altitude with milky aplomb. But as one of his courtiers puts it, "the King has a conscience." Accordingly, in the past two years, Zahir Shah has mastered a new art: politics. For Afghanistan, that is the kingliest accomplishment...