Word: superealism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government and director of the Kennedy Institute, who taught at Cornell when the chair was set up, said. "I don't know if this chair is resistible. You teach when and where you want, and it has a substantial research fund attached to it. It's sort of a super University Professorship...
...rockbound coast Is threatened by the super Tankers disgorging crude oil On the tide...
...heredity is one of the factors that make it so difficult to change human characteristics. Another is that nearly all behavioral traits are polygenic?dependent on several genes. But even so complex a trait as intelligence may eventually come under the control of molecular biologists. Some scientists fantasize that super-geniuses will some day be produced by increasing brain size, through either genetic manipulation or through transplantation of brain cells to newborn infants or to the fetus in the womb. (Such cells might be synthesized in the laboratory or developed by taking bits of easily accessible tissue from a contemporary...
...sperm donor. In later editions, Lenin was conspicuously absent, replaced on Muller's list by Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes, Pasteur, Lincoln and Einstein. Society could well be as fickle?or worse?about cloning. It might create a caste of subservient workers, as in 1984, or a breed of super-warriors out of a "genetics race" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. An even more hideous nightmare would be the "clonal farm," where anyone could keep a deep-frozen identical twin on hand for organ transplants...
...Menotti opera, he said, "It is 'farther out' than anything I've seen in a decade; in the wrong direction, of course." He also took on broader targets. The technology of today's recording engineers, he complained, removed natural sound and human errors, producing "a super-glossy, chem-fab music substitute that was never heard on sea or land, including Philadelphia." And to him, the one conspicuous success of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West was "the attempt to make it American-simple-minded...