Word: rat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with fish, fruit, ham, chicken, lobster and a skinned hare. The rest of the painting seems to show that it takes all kinds to make a world: there are a broad-beamed model, a shepherd boy with a goat, a Negro with a wheelbarrow, a bishop, a gargoyle, a rat, a frog, a monkey, a barking dog and a girl with a bouquet, whom Lorjou describes as "the pretty woman one sees every day some place...
Chicken or Rat? At 42, Lorjou is a solitary, dead-serious Parisian who makes his living designing fabrics. His Atomic Age rates an "A" for effort, but it is clumsily drawn, and not so much composed as thrown together. Eying the crammed confusion of Lorjou's canvas, one unmoved gallerygoer remarked: "One atom bomb and all that will be left is the chicken, or perhaps only the rat...
...electron in black lace wound her way around two matrons labeled "proton" and "neutron" while an elderly ginger-haired Geiger counter clicked out their radioactive effect on a pretty girl named Agriculture. At a climactic moment, a Mrs. Monica Davial raced across the stage in spirited representation of a rat eating radioactive cheese. Mrs. Davial, it was noted in the program, had "recently returned from a trip to Tibet" and hence presumably had a nice understanding of these things. A small boy named Bunny May was on hand to guide recalcitrant atoms into their proper places...
There are those who spot faults in this program of diminishing returns. Emphasis on "dinner table education" and tutorial work would decline as grades became all-important. With draft boards sifting greedily through the D's and E's, the universities would sponsor rat races for grades. And the plan would recognize no difference between an educational playground and a college like this...
...most serious brush with occupational disease came in 1932. Dr. Dyer was one of a team which had just about proved that U.S. endemic typhus is borne by rat fleas (instead of human body lice, as in Old World epidemic typhus). Then an infected rat flea in PHS's misnamed Hygienic Laboratory bit Dr. Dyer. That clinched it: he got a severe case of typhus. Previously he had thought of endemic typhus as a mild form of the disease. Now he said: "Where do they get that 'mild' stuff? I talked to the angels the last three...