Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation, formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, is Harvard's highest administrative organ--save the largely ceremonial Board of Overseers--but instead of getting involved in the day-to-day affairs of the University, it concentrates on long-range planning and only takes direct responsibility for major financial matters...
...could have predicted that a tone poem based on Friedrich Nietzsche's notions of the death of God, the will to power and the rise of a superman would become one of symphonic literature's greatest hits? Yet long before Director Stanley Kubrick popularized its spectacular organ and brass apostrophe in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Strauss's blazing essay in orchestrational virtuosity ranked high in audiences' esteem. Maazel and the Viennese give this mettle tester a commanding reading, capturing the grandeur of its arresting introduction, the suavity of its incongruous waltz and the enigma...
French law offered little guidance, and so the whole case rested on exquisitely philosophical arguments about what the dead man's frozen sperm really was. An organ transplant? An inheritable piece of property? State Prosecutor Yves Lesec, siding with the sperm bank, argued that it was part of the dead man's body, even though separated from that body. The dead man had a basic right to "physical integrity," the prosecutor concluded, saying in effect that his widow had no more right to his sperm than to his feet or ears. Not so, retorted Parpalaix's lawyer...
...meant to soothe the fears of Hong Kong's residents, almost half of them refugees from the Communist mainland, who fear that China might start meddling in the colony's affairs well before 1997. Howe took pains to stress that the group "will not be an organ of power; it will have no supervisory role; it will play no part in the administration of Hong Kong...
...anonymous donor provided the new organ for a 20-year-old man from Vermont suffering from a congenital heart disorder...