Word: outerness
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...typical cell, which may be only one twenty-five-thousandth of an inch long, is aboil with chemical action. It is building thousands of complex compounds and tearing other thousands to bits. It selects nutrients that it wants, and in some mysterious way absorbs them selectively through its outer wall. Tiny, mysterious bodies move through its protoplasm, and inside the nucleus reside the powerful chromosomes, which most geneticists believe are like a chemical oligarchy controlling the activities of a chemical nation. If the cell is a fertilized egg, the chromosomes possess all the information needed to build the cell into...
Visit satirizes in very funny fashion a good many things, such as man's penchant for war, the Pentagon bureaucracy, the self-inflated news commentator, free love, the power of mind over matter, and the flying saucer furore. The story centers around Kreton, a visitor from outer space who lives in the "suburbs of time," can read all the thoughts of men and animals, and considers our earth a mere toy to be played with...
...outer space: "No one who believes in the Bible," said Adventist Vice President A. L. Ham, "can doubt the ultimate reality of space travel...
Painter Dali called his creation Crisalida and explained in his notes: "The outer structure of Miltown is that of a chrysalis, maximum symbol of the vital nirvana which paves the way for the dazzling dawn of the butterfly, in its turn the symbol of the human soul." Any resemblance between Miltown and a chrysalis, doctors agreed, was confined to Dali's fancy. Still, the word chrysalis is derived from the Greek for gold, and no matter how untranquilizing Dali's work might be, as an attention-getter it was worth its weight in gold to Miltown...
...clear plastic tubes. Inside were equally ingenious, sausage-shaped plastic gadgets representing mitochondria and fat globules. There was also a gaudy red nucleus, like a gang of tortured octopuses outdoing Laocoön's serpents, with centrosomes that made it look as though it had just landed from outer space...