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...survey funded by the National Science Foundation of 215 institutions concluded that the average humanities major spent only about 7% of his college education studying science. Hence the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is making grants of more than $3 million to 32 of the nation's top liberal arts colleges in order to introduce the reasoning methods used in applied mathematics and the development of technology into today's liberal arts curriculum. Sloan will provide $250,000 each to ten colleges, including Williams, Mount Holyoke and Wellesley, and $25,000 to others, such as Dartmouth and Bowdoin...
...approval is a victory for Dr. Lyman Smith of Elgin, Ill., an orthopedist who developed and promoted use of the enzyme to treat herniated discs. Smith had been fascinated with a 1956 paper by Dr. Lewis Thomas, author of Lives of a Cell and now Chancellor of Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Thomas had been trying to see if various enzymes could alter concentrations of proteins in the blood. One evening, he gave adolescent rabbits intravenous injections of papain. Next morning, he found that the rabbits' normally erect ears had flopped; the papaya enzyme had dissolved the gelatinous protein...
...FOUR CHARACTERS are refuse from society--unwanted and lonely Mr. Sloan (Mike Samols) enters the sheltered lives of Kath, a middle-aged woman: her crotchety old father Kemp and her effeminate brother Ed. Kath and her father live in a tenement that borders on a dump, and emotionally their lives are steeped in trash and decay as well. The play delves into the complex lover's triangle that develops between Sloan, Kath--who becomes his land-lady and Ed who becomes his employer. To round off the plot, Kemp is the only witness who can prove that Sloan murdered...
Dripping with innate violence, Samols's Sloan consumes the room with his cerie presence. His physical rhythm hypnotizes us--as it does Kath and Ed. who both fall hopelessly in love with him. Always tensed and laconic, Sloan quietly manipulates the frantic brother and sister who desperately need him to fill the aching voids in their lives...
Amidst her blatant passion for Sloan, various other subplots unfold--including the homosexual relationship between Ed and Sloan and the father's recognition of Sloan. All these developments climax in one explosive monologue by Sloan, revealing his depraved and destructive past. Samols leaves us breathless from this speech and his ensuing violence, which finally lead Kath and Ed to a brutal fight over Sloan...