Word: placidness
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Skilled Cell. The idea was not original with Beadle. Every biologist marvels at the chemical virtuosity of living cells. Under the eye of the microscope they seem placid things. The slimy protoplasm inside them sometimes streams slowly, but little other action is visible. This quietude is an illusion. The 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...
...bond among men who have known battle, those who survived it and those who did not, held together the band from the rose garden as they crossed the placid Potomac in the 82° afternoon sun to the shining white memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. There, in fresh graves flanking the tomb of World War I's Unknown Soldier, they were to bury two unknown comrades of the last two wars. Close overhead came Air Force jet fighters and bombers, the lead wingman of each formation dramatically missing to represent those who do not come back...
Desai is a paradoxical figure whom most Westerners-and not a few Indians-find hard to understand. An outwardly placid man, Desai devoutly copies all the personal habits of Mahatma Gandhi. He is a vegetarian, fasts 36 hours every week, generally drinks nothing but water-although at a party, to get into the spirit of things, he will sometimes take coconut milk. His views on sexual continence are so rigid that he once boasted that he had not had relations with his wife for 20 years. Almost alone among India's leading politicians, he has never traveled abroad. Chief...
...Girl and Her Songs (Teddi King; RCA Victor). One of the best singing technicians in the business offers an imaginative tour of love's stormy and placid seasons, in a voice with a fine dramatic range. Teddi's best effort: a refurbished edition of Dorothy Fields's and Jimmy McHugh's Porgy, which here glitters as brightly as Gershwin's more famous exercise on a fellow of the same name...
...Noonday; $3.50) is a collection of twelve tales about Polish Jews who are important to nobody except themselves, God and the devil. In these pages Satan and all his imps lope through the swamps and forests of Galicia. tempting a vain girl with an enchanted mirror, destroying a placid marriage, debauching the entire village of Frampol with dancing, vodka and banknotes. God comes slowly after, not to punish Satan for his mischief, but to apply his lash to the backs of sinful Jews...