Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took his Ph.D. degree at Harvard with Carroll Williams, professor of Biology. When asked about Kafatos, Williams said "Fotis is in a group by himself. I've never seen anyone with such a green thumb for identifying the critical phenomenon and devising the necessary experiment." Williams relates how one of his colleagues, after watching Kafatos present his findings, said "God may be dead but Zeus isn't." Williams used to be one of the heads of the developmental biology course Kafatos now teaches with John G. Torrey, professor of Botany. But "Kafatos is such an enchanting and lovable teacher that...
...learned to improvise, to say the least. But only now, at 37, has he finally budged from In dianapolis in order to join his brothers Monk and Buddy in a group called the Mastersounds. His playing, though bristling with authority, is unorthodox: he plucks the strings with his thumb in stead of his fingers or a plectrum, giving a rounded, intense tone, and he phrases in short, jabbing bursts instead of the looping legatos of most post-Christian guitarists. Enter Jazz Critic Ralph Gleason...
...considerably shorter on value. Typical of this arena is Collision Course, a show consisting of eleven short plays, most of them by café-nurtured playwrights, presented last week at Manhattan's Café Au go Go. All were esthetic stillbirths. Alternating between juvenile temper tantrums and thumb-sucking private reveries, they dwelt on the tried-and-trite themes of alienation, lack of communication, male-female hostility, the nausea of being an American, and the pending nuclear apocalypse. In terms of the development of first-caliber playwrights, off-off-Broadway is still a dramatic pygmyland...
...saying out why he's saying this. What this message, in the singular, is, is an understanding of the kind of life Dylan's living. That's not the details of his life like whether he's wandering around Mexico getting robbed by whores as in Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues. Knowing those details would be kind of interesting but it's more than we could ask Dylan. And what's really important is just knowing the way Dylan thinks and philosophizes and approaches things. But Dylan's message is what he's saying, not a singular idea...
Pictures of Columbia's 12 top administrators were thumb-tacked on a large bulletin board in the office of Columbia's student newspaper, the Daily Spectator. A hand-lettered sign above them read, "Look at these men carefully, they may not be around much longer...