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Some biologists believe that humanity begins at conception because the fertilized egg cell contains human DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). Manhattan Lawyer Cyril Means Jr., among others, finds this line of reasoning unconvincing: each sperm and egg also contain DNA, yet hardly anyone would argue, even metaphysically, that spermatozoa and ova possess the value of human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Abortion on Demand | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...miscast, not as to skill, but in terms of temperament. Madame Ra-nevskaya, who cannot bring herself to uproot the orchard and build a housing development, ought to be enveloped in actressy vanity and a flighty inability to cope. Yet Gloria Foster displays little vanity and seems to possess such granitic strength as to have sold the estate and axed the first cherry tree herself. Lopakin, the son of a serf, who buys the Ranevskaya property at auction, is played a shade too unctuously by James Earl Jones, who also lacks the quality of a steely, patient peasant finally coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Classics Revisited | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...deemed best by the boards of both papers to effect a consolidation, and by uniting their interests form a new paper, which, while naturally partaking of much of the character of the--former publications, would yet be free from many of the disadvantages under which they labored, and would possess a much wider range of possibilities than was open to either The Herald or The Crimson... That there is room for literary merit in the columns of a college dally is our firm conviction, and we shall...endeavor to combine prose, poetry, and news in such proportion as will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Spite of a Leery Faculty, The Crimson Begins | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

Robert F. Bales, Director of the Laboratory, said last night that Alpert was unwilling to relinquish drugs he intended for his personal use, claiming he had a citizen's right to possess them. In view of this the Laboratory felt it was impossible to establish "proper control of the drugs...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin and Andrew T. Weil, S | Title: The Crimson Takes Leary, Alpert to Task | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...young composer who has worked with both John Cage and the rock group, Velvet Underground. Cale's orchestral writing (played by the Royal Philharmonic) often sounds like ersatz Charles Ives, Cale's piano parts (played by Cale himself) like sleepy Debussy. Yet within their pop context, they possess a kind of "laid-back" mood that may just appeal to the rock young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Records: Pick of Pop | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

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