Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a quarter of a century since Albert Camus wrote The Stranger, perhaps still the best modern novel of alienation and despair. Though Camus steadfastly refused to allow it, or any of his other books, to be made into a movie, his widow finally sold the film rights to Italian Producer Dino De Laurentiis on condition that the director be Luchino Visconti (The Leopard, Rocco and His Brothers...
...authorities in Algiers rip up a street to lay down trolley tracks that had been there during the period of the story (1938-39), and even ordered a reprinting of cigarette packages to match those sold at the time. Visconti's film of The Stranger follows the action of the novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lies both its strength and its weakness...
Biochemist Kornberg, who is executive head of Stanford's biochemistry department, is no stranger to molecule synthesis. In 1959 he shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for producing the first synthetic DNA molecule. Unlike the 1967 model, however, it was biologically inactive. He has received other awards for his work with enzymes and hopes next to learn how an enzyme like DNA polymerase actually organizes nucleotides into DNA molecules. Bio chemist Goulian worked under Korn berg as a postdoctoral fellow, and is now on the faculty of the University of Chicago Medical School. Sinsheimer is an authority on viruses...
...Manhattan. Brother Jero, played with finesse by Harold Scott, is a delightful spoof of the self-declared prophets who hold ceremonies for their "customers" on the beach. The Strong Breed is more of a myth-play, delving into the realm of tribal taboos with the tale of a stranger who becomes a village's sacrificial scapegoat...
...Manhattan. Brother Jero, played with finesse by Harold Scot, is a delightful spoof of the self-declared prophets who hold ceremonies for their "customers" on the beach. The Strong Breed is more of a myth-play, delving into the realm of tribal taboos with the tale of a stranger who becomes a village's sacrificial scapegoat...