Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Myths & Marvels. Every half-hour a small group of museum visitors was ushered into a gallery that had been made over to look like a gimcracked Victorian theater. The antique chandelier dimmed, and on stage the "Magnificent Scenic Mirror" (which Rathbone had found in the University of Pennsylvania Museum cellar) was slowly unrolled. Painted on muslin, it showed the myths and marvels of the Mississippi valley as sketched or imagined by one Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson, a Burton Holmes of the 1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy...
...Every place that is favorable for the growth of micro-organisms (and most places are) is a churning battleground of small, fierce creatures. A pinch of moist soil weighing one gram, for instance, may contain more bacteria (up to 2 billion) than there are people on earth. Among the ordinary creatures prowl savage protozoa engulfing them one by one. There is an underworld, too, made up of submicroscopic viruses, hardly more than big molecules, which often invade the larger organisms and multiply explosively...
Across such a battleground run waves of defeat and triumph. Whole populations of thriving creatures suddenly disappear and are replaced by new ones. Small, humble organisms, which have been living a hunted existence, turn belligerent and dominate the field...
...many A.B.W. members work for such big-time institutions. Most come from small towns like the A.B.W.'s most prominent ex-member, U.S. Treasurer Clark, once president of a bank in Richland, Kans...
...heroism, and familiar props (a smoky nightclub like the one in Casablanca, repeated torch-singing of a Tin Pan Alley tune) to make it a caricature of a Bogart film. Wearing his old trench coat and mouthing a cigarette. Bogart returns to Tokyo after the war to start a small freight airline backed by a blank-faced racketeer (oldtime silent Cinemactor Sessue Hayakawa). By the time the comic-book plot has run its course, Bogart has saved his ex-wife (Florence Marly) from exposure as a Tokyo Rose, stopped the infiltration of war criminals, and rescued his small daughter from...