Word: raw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's leading producer of "heavy oxygen," the institute supplies these radioactive isotopes for tracer work to labs around the globe. One of its most ingenious feats was achieved by Biophysicist Aaron Katchalsky, who used synthetic fibers to duplicate the perplexing process by which muscles convert raw chemical energy into mechanical force...
...WHISTLE IN THE DARK has the raw, roiling energy of life observed with an exactitude that defies disbelief. The Carneys are a pride of Irish gutter lions, bred to the tooth and claw, who move into the home of the only brother who has tried to flee their world of lacerating animal instinct. The performances are all labors of skill and love, and Arvin Brown's deft direction is full of silent music...
...rush was on. Speculators turned to cheaper issues of other mineral companies operating in Australia's raw and open West. Rumors spread that undiscovered nickel deposits lay under much of the territory. Thus, the boom is likely to spur prospecting as well as speculation...
...RAW AND THE COOKED: INTRODUCTION TO A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY, VOL. I by Claude Levi-Strauss. 387 pages. Harper & Row. $10. In a book much talked about since its 1964 publication in France, the world's most fascinating social anthropologist studies scores of primitive mythologies, searching for a common code that he hopes will reveal the laws that govern the creative workings of the human mind...
...LONG-WINDED LADY by Maeve Brennan. 238 pages. Morrow. $6. Collected from The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section, these bleak reportorial vignettes of life in Manhattan create the impression of a raw private perception struggling against total loneliness: the great city observed...