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...White mice," he explained, "had severe deformities of the brain, skull and skeleton when the mother had too little oxygen on the eighth day of pregnancy. Cleft palate was a common result of exposure on the 14th day, and a curious defect of the eye and eyelids--so-called 'open eye'--when the pregnancy had advanced to about sixteen days...
...immediate threat, are obvious. The liberal intellectuals frankly fear the militarists and think the best way to keep them from coming to power again is to keep the nation's armaments down and its foreign policy neutral. The militarists want the U.S. to give Japan the skeleton of an army, navy and air force (which the U.S. is planning to do) and then get out. Once in power, they want to be free to make their own deals with the camp they think will...
...abstract composition. In most cases, he uses conventional colors and does not try for delicate tones or nuances. His large water-color entitled "Three Fish" has a good balance of geometric shapes and is neatly drawn. A smaller "Fish," however, is much more lively because lines forming the skeleton play against lines representing turbulence in the water. The result is a fish which looks alive. Chermayeff's other fish in a large, blue water-color are quite dead and only make a pattern which would look pleasant on a bed-spread. "Breakfast at Sardi's" evokes humor and excitement. Except...
...steel. The average American is awakened every morning by a steel alarm clock, hops out of a steel-springed bed, shaves himself with a steel blade, has breakfast cooked on a steel range, rides to work in a steel bus or car, works in a building whose entire skeleton is steel. Virtually every U.S. product is made of steel or from steel machinery, and 40% of all U.S. jobs depend upon steel and its users. Steel is the foundation of all U.S. military power, real and in the making. In this age of mechanized warfare, it is no longer...
This obituary is unsatisfactory in many respects. It is far more significant for what it omitted than for what it said. It is the skeleton of an argument, and as such is difficult to attack though incapable of standing by itself...