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THIS INTERACTION between environment and 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...
...public fear of genetics is due to a misunderstanding of the differences between monogenic and polygenic traits resulting in an exaggeration of the current powers of genetics, Davis says. Monogenic traits are determined by only one gene, while polygenic traits may be determined by several hundred thousand genes. The recent isolation and synthesis of single bacterial genes does not indicate that isolation or synthesis of a specific group of human genes determining a polygenic trait is within the experimenter's easy grasp...
...Cabiria. She is used, victimized and deserted by men in a series of bitter, occasionally funny vignettes. But in Fellini's exquisite parable, Cabiria's tragic flaw was her humanity and innocence; Wanda can blame her woes only on what very often seems like stupidity, a trait readily conducive to personal, but not dramatic tragedy...
Like the work of every great creative artist, Beethoven's music evokes different deep, personal responses in different people. The one trait he symbolizes to everyone, however, is freedom-his own freedom as an artist, all men's freedom to live their own lives. Beethoven's loftiest hymn to that core symbol is Fidelio, which today has a special pertinence to those European countries, as Austrian Conductor Karl Böhm puts it, "that experienced foreign occupation and domination within the recent past." Thus it was thoroughly proper that the Met's new Fidelio was entrusted...
...school principals wear three-piece suits, stern expressions and are totally devoid of humor. Good shows often result from giving the lie to stereotypes, witness ABC-TV's Room 222, which features a handsome black history teacher (Lloyd Haynes) and a rumpled, comfortable principal (Michael Constantine), whose strongest trait is a sense of underplayed humor. It works; in the current season, Room 222 has appeared consistently among the ten top-rated programs, and deserves...