Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poetic. Among them: Artist Henry Varnum Poor, Cartoonist Milton Caniff (Terry & the Pirates), Composer Kurt Weill (Lady in the Dark). So did Helen Hayes, who lives down the river a way. So did several hundred less glamorous citizens-Italian and Polish truck gardeners behind the Hudson Highlands, and rock-ribbed Republicans who peacefully dairy-farm and grow cauliflower in the blue Catskill hills. Each did something about it in his own way: Playwright Anderson used his $180 from the New Yorker as a campaign contribution to beat Fish; Helen Hayes gave the voters a touch of histrionics-on-the-hustings...
...thing he would like to show the world is that he can reproduce himself scientifically. Artificial insemination was one step. He took another step last week, with the first recorded fertilization of a human ovum outside the mother's body. In Science last week Harvard Gynecologist John Rock and his assistant, Miriam F. Menkin, reported this scientific affront to womanhood. In a small watch glass, the two researchers put a human egg, cut from a woman's ovary. Next they put in some live male sperm. They let the mixture stand for an hour at room temperature, then...
...Rock was proud, but not that proud. He wanted it distinctly understood that he was making no claims of having created a test-tube baby. He has succeeded in thus fertilizing three ova. One of his products had reached the three-cell stage of growth. But Dr. Rock modestly doubted that science would ever be able to reproduce the complex of hormones and other substances in a mother's body required to develop the billions of cells that make up a human embryo. His experiments, however, have made it possible for the first time to see the beginnings...
Intensely distrustful of emotionalism and romancing, Hopkins called Swin burne's verses about children "blethery bathos"; and when William Butler Yeats wrote an allegory about a man and a sphinx conversing on a rock in the sea, Hopkins asked coldly: "How did they get there? What did they...
...swept past Mont-Saint-Michel last week, but some enraptured U.S. troops stopped to stare. A half century ago another U.S. visitor, Henry Adams, saw the same towering, church-crowned rock in the sea off Avranches, felt the same compulsion. Wrote he in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres...