Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tackles the philosophical dilemmas of the ages--free will, consciousness, and "the good." But the person Skinner leaves us with is a mere puppet, without purpose and dignity. He speaks of the self as nothing more than "the small part of the universe which is within one's own skin...
...apocalypticism is an appropriate conclusion to this idiosyncratic book. The accompanying nostalgia is something else. It is generally agreed that the human animal appears to have evolved because of hardship, not in spite of it, but Ardrey seems almost too wistful for the times when we survived by the skin of our fangs. R.Z. Sheppard
When a young dermatologist named William Summerlin first reported in 1973 that he had succeeded in transplanting skin from a white man to a black and from one species of mouse to another, immunologists were intrigued. By the spring of 1974, their interest had turned to incredulity. One researcher after another reported an inability to duplicate the transplants. Summerlin, who had moved from the University of Minnesota to New York's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, found himself under enormous pressure. One March morning, he gathered up a dozen grafted mice and started upstairs from his laboratory...
YELLOW JESSAMINE (entire plant): thirst, dilation of the pupils, reddened skin, headache, high blood pressure and rapid pulse, convulsions, delirium and coma...
...than fantasy: tactile memories of mold, mud, woodgrain and brick became some of the most "painterly" painting in the history of art. The foreground of The Leaping Horse is all matter, and the things in it-squidgy earth, tangled weeds and wild flowers, prickle of light on the dark skin of water sliding over a hidden ledge-are troweled and spattered on with ecstatic gusto...