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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member Medical School Consortium last week approved a proposal for the formation of a steering committee to investigate ways to find pre-med students who possess the skills a physician needs to perform his job, Dr. Robert S. Blacklow, associate dean for academic programs at the Medical School, said yesterday...

Author: By Kathleen E. Mcdonough, | Title: Med School Study | 5/11/1977 | See Source »

...History it is not the personae who possess magic skills or truly utilize coincidence; it is the author. Morante continually makes old tricks fresh-not as a paring down of life's complexity but as short cuts into the absurdities of conflict and the urgencies of peace. The effects are cumulative. Details are meticulously piled up: the dress and appearance of all the players in a casual card game, the entire contents of a small room that Ida rents. This tangible solidity is threatened by the destructive mania that is called history. Morante prefaces her chapters (each of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Powers and the Powerless | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...Resnais's final message--insofar as it emerges from his frequently brilliant, sometimes uncertain juxtaposition of fragments of dialogue and imagery--is more complex. Gielgud is not merely a victim; as an artist, he does possess some measure of hegemony over his characters. "Nothing is written," he announces ominously to his dinner guests. "We all believe that, don't we?" The title of the film is, in one sense, straightforwardly symbolic: as creators, Gielgud and Resnais share a god-like power to manipulate others, a power contrasting with the usual human helplessness in the face of life's confusions...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Through a Glass, Bluely | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

...sexual mating but by simply dividing. Thus their ability to acquire new and possibly advantageous genes would seem to be highly limited. But the tiny creatures have devised a cunning alternative. Besides their single, large, ringed chromosome (which is the repository of most of their genes), they possess much smaller closed loops of DNA, called plasmids-which consist of only a few genes. This extra bit of DNA-genetic small change, as it has been dubbed-serves a highly useful purpose. When two bacteria brush against each other, they sometimes form a connecting bridge. During such a "conjugation," a plasmid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOOMSDAY: TINKERING WITH LIFE | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...Odyssey). Though less well known than their composers' works for orchestra or piano, these string quartets are charmers. The first is as spirited and melodic as one would expect from Mendelssohn. The second is imbued with the blend of impulsiveness and poetic fancy that Schumann alone seemed to possess. The superlative interpretations by the sui generis Budapest Quartet come from tapes of live performances at the Library of Congress in 1959 and 1961 and are released here for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classic and Choice | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

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