Word: precisionism
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Few first novels have been embraced with such praise and sympathy as Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird-a taut, savage story of a stray city boy's brutalization by Middle European peasants during World War II. Three years after it was published in 1965, Kosinski won the...
Precision and Balance. Chance's resemblance to Voltaire's Candide ("We must cultivate our garden") and even to Buster Keaton's deadpan clown is fairly obvious. Despite the implausibility of the plot, the precision and balance of Kosinski's laconic prose, and his ability to animate...
Not until he reaches the Massachusetts Institute of Technology does the author reveal his true capacities as a Jeremiah. Here he finds engineers and behavioral scientists assembling a future that they intend to inflict upon us whether we want it or not. Others before Thompson have pointed out the horrors...
Molecular biology, in part, is rooted in the science of genetics. Ever since Cro-Magnon man, parents have probably wondered why their children resemble them. But not until an obscure Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel began planting peas in his monastery's garden in the mid-19th century were the...
Using this clue as their Rosetta stone, Nirenberg and other researchers eventually found one or more three-letter code words, or codons, that could call up every single amino acid?plus other words that acted as punctuation, marking the start or completion of a message ordering the production of a...