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Beckerman, 52, a tailor's son who managed to get to Cambridge after the war on an ex-serviceman's scholarship, enjoys the jousting with the doomsayers. The most ardent conservationists, he scoffs, are elitists with a "trendy" argument that rarely gets more sophisticated than "stopping the earth at once before it's too late." This aristocratic posture, he says, allows the well-heeled to display "exquisite sensibilities, moral virtue and subtle perceptions." What upper-class conservationists are really concerned about, he insists, is saving their "salmon streams and grouse moors." Little fuss is ever made...
Curtiss is still working to develop a more perfect-or defective-microbe for recombinant DNA research. But for the time being, genetic engineers have available a tailor-made microbe that cannot survive outside the laboratory and that cannot colonize or even live in the human intestinal tract. Nor is this the only indication that the bug would make a poor pathogen, or disease organism. Curtiss' handmade microbe will not survive in human serum-including that of cancer patients. It is also easily destroyed by common household detergents...
...fact, some parts of the plan seem tailor-made to lessen the Quad's attractiveness. Four-year housing, for one, has long been seen as one of the Quad's strong points. Quad freshmen, in contact with more mature and experienced upperclassmen, benefit from a network of course and personal advising superior to that of the Yard. For their part, upperclassmen at the Quadrangle enjoyed the vitality that freshmen bring to hall life...
...when tolerance and rationality were abandoned in the overzealous pursuit of an ignoble goal. Such aberrations in social behavior, because they so unjustly harm the innocent, often inspire potent works of art depicting the struggle of the helpless individual against the demonic forces of the prosecution. The theme is tailor-made for exciting, socially significant theatre and cinema. When done well, the result is a deeply moving classic of the modern stage like Man of La Mancha or The Crucible; when done poorly, the result is a screen disaster like The Front...
...London in 1773 and now on sale in the Colonies. Born in Africa (she does not know exactly what part of Africa), she was brought to America by a slaver in 1761. She was then seven or eight years old, by the estimate of John Wheatley, a prosperous Boston tailor, who bought the thin little waif with the idea that she should be trained to attend his wife Susannah. In a testimonial letter to the publisher, Wheatley writes: "Without any assistance from school education, and by only what she was taught in the family, she, in sixteen months time from...