Word: organismic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the payoffs in transplant sur gery are still distressingly few, hopes remain high; both the number and vari ety of transplant operations are increasing. Trouble is, the human body has a habit of trying to reject any tissue or organism that is foreign to its own chemistry. Only with...
Curves & Squares. For Manhattan Physician Howard Taylor, Architect John M. Johansen has built a many-chambered nautilus. Johansen, who trained under Walter Gropius, has veered away from the Master's Bauhaus cubism into a vocabulary of curves and coils, pleasing both to look at and to live in. The...
But in Mr. Brackman's view, any "initiation" of, say, a nineteen or twenty-year-old male to homosexual acts exposes him to "inevitable emotional damage," so the seducer is inevitably "irresponsible." Oh, I suppose so. It is also often damaging to hold back and effectually reject. In life you...
A celebrated criticism of Nehru is that he resembles India's banyan tree, which proverbially kills every other organism that grows in its shade. In the wake of three parliamentary by-election defeats last spring, Nehru announced that he would ask a dozen top Cabinet and state ministers to...
On this one phenomenon Karlson has built a sweeping theory of how DNA controls the development of an organism, and how nature reads its own code. The great store of hereditary information that DNA contains, says Karlson, is not needed all at once. It comes into play gradually, as if...