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Deserving though the biologists may be, their new role raises a real concern. Traditionally, university researchers toil in their labs, usually at the taxpayers' expense, doing basic research?that is, research promising fresh insights into the fundamental truths of nature, regardless of the prospect of immediate payoffs. The bioengineering firms, by contrast, must set their sights on quick returns. Will the new alliance between industry and academia destroy the old objective "purity" of science? Will scientists still freely exchange information or lab specimens, as they have often done in the past, if they know a colleague works for a rival...
...what one must assume are Communist spies. It is only when Albin and Renato are forced to flee France and take refuge in Italy, at the home of the latter's mother, that the picture comes alive. For these are the backward boondocks, where women are expected to toil for their keep. Poor Albin, forced to live not a fantasy of femininity but one of its harsher realities, finds himself scrubbing floors and harvesting grain-all of which distinctly goes against his grain. He is also pursued by an inarticulate rustic type, who is apparently smitten by the hearty...
...kind, should make such demands. It's the proportions that give me the greatest trouble. And I have such a horror of grandiloquent finales." "To live without writing, oh marvel!" she added at another point. But when she was old and someone asked her why she continued to toil so diligently, she seemed shocked by the question. "It's my work," she replied...
Americans might even honor the exuberant, slightly bizarre poetry of their commercial muse. Two or three generations ago, the national laureate might have been the anonymous bard who wrote the Burma Shave roadside quatrains ("In this vale/ Of toil and sin/ Your head grows bald/ But not your chin/ Burma Shave.") The beer commercial ("You've danced all day on a pool of fire," or some such: "Now Comes Miller Time!") has invented a sort of macho haiku that might turn into a national verse form...
...like Providence, Soleri works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. He operates within a paltry budget of $250,000 a year, most of which comes from his books and lectures, the sale of bells made on the site, and the $300 fees paid by those who come to toil on the project for a five-week workshop period. Those who stay longer get put on the payroll at $35 a week; and a few "Frank Lloyd Wright Scholars" attend free in exchange for manning the kitchens, a reminder of Soleri's own apprenticeship at Wright's Taliesin...