Word: rostand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry Treece's Carnival King was an especially unhappy choice for the Theatre on the Green's opening number by contrast with the remainder of the 1957 bill of fare, which includes Moliere's Would-be Gentleman this week and next, and later Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac and Shaw's Man and Superman--all of which present a delightful and heady prospect indeed...
...Evidence of Mayan penetration into Canada. 86. From his work on frogs and rabbits, French Biologist Jean Rostand regards as a frightening possibility human parthenogenesis, or: 1. Virgin birth...
...Second son of Dramatist Edmond Rostand (Cyrano de Bergerac...
...scientist, Dr. Rostand naturally holds aloof from moral implications-but as a Frenchman, he is sure that, once parthenogenesis is possible, some women will want to try it. And that really scares him: "It is thus inevitable that a new kind of human being (according to our present knowledge they will all be girls) -will appear in society, and will be aware of their extraordinary origin . . . Realization of the fact that the male has ceased to be necessary for propagation will not fail to exercise a profound effect on the relations between man and woman...
...cause anxiety only in "traditionalist minds . . . All increase in human capabilities complicates the moral life . . . Let us beware, however, of ever reproaching science for the difficulties it has created for us. It is not recent news that living is more arduous for an adult than for a child." Dr. Rostand is no child, and his frogs are no tadpoles...