Word: organism
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Having prudently given the rattlesnake a paralyzing injection of curare, the researchers uncovered one of the nerves leading out of a pit organ and connected it through an electrode to an apparatus that amplified and recorded its electrical impulses. When they blindfolded the snake but did not excite it otherwise, the sound that came from the amplifier sounded "like grease cooking slowly in a pan." But when Dr. Bullock moved his warm hand near the snake's pit, the sizzling sound increased "as if you had turned the heat up." A lighted match or cigarette produced the same effect...
Telling Off Stalin. It was a fine, organ-like performance. But by this point, the newsmen were anxious to get back to the breathtaking disclosure that Truman had once, by ultimatum, told off Stalin and well-nigh carried the country into war with Russia. Had the ultimatum been published before? The President said no, but it is in the record. When was the ultimatum delivered? The President first said 1945. After a whispered consultation with Press Secretary Joe Short, he agreed that maybe it was 1946. But the dates were not important, said Harry Truman. The facts were that...
With the Communists safely in power, Hungary's bullet-headed top Communist Matyas Rakosi decided the time had come to tell everybody how they got there.Writing in the party organ Social Review, Rakosi is cynically candid. In the free elections of 1945, the Communists polled only 17% of the vote while the democratic Smallholders Party polled 56.5%, a clear majority. But with the help of the occupying Russian army ("Soviet 'interferences' in internal affairs . . . were of great value in strengthening our party"), the Smallholders were persuaded to make concessions...
...magazine of political opinion, The Freeman has changed considerably during the past nineteen months. In its first issues this fortnightly right-wing organ had acted like a drunken paper-hanger, slapping "bloody red" labels on everyone in sight. The original Freeman saw modern art as a Communist plot to accelerate capitalist collapse, said there was non-Communist Left, described America's European allies as "unrecognizably neurotic" and disloyal. But this week Editor John Chamberlin sent a "Newest Freeman" to fifty university cities. It sports a glossy cover and four full page ads--but what is more important, The Freeman...
When he is asked what artist has influenced him most, Painter Lyonel Feininger answers: "Bach." Visitors to his retrospective show in Manhattan last week could see what he means. Disciplined as fugues, Feininger's paintings of ships and steeples, trees and towers are masterpieces of order-"organized and orchestrated in color," Feininger hopes, "like a large-scale composition for the organ." Over the years, his compositions have won Lyonel Feininger recognition as one of the most distinguished of living U.S. artists, and last week, at 80, he was still composing as strongly as ever...