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Talking to people at the Divinity School is like watching Sir Lancelot zoom by on a motorcycle: you get the feeling that time-honored traditions have been catapulted into the twentieth century...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Divinity School: No 'Spectator Religion' | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Duke Ellington Swings Through Japan" shows the Duke on his memorable three-week tour of Japan in 1964. Repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 5, 1965 | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...Twentieth century geneticists gradually evolved the theory that whether an organism is to be microbe, mouse or man, its biochemical functions are determined by genes strung together to form chromosomes. Each gene is believed to be a submicroscopic but still "giant" molecule of a nucleic acid, usu ally deoxyribonucleic acid (DNAJ, but in some viruses ribonucleic acid (RNA) Each gene, the theory held, directly controls the cells' production of some one specific chemical-in most cases an enzyme, one of the body's countless catalysts that are essential to nearly all its functions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laureates: Three Men & a Messenger | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

When he isn't off on some twentieth century crusade, Coffin tries to spend about four hours a day dispensing hard-headed advice to those who seek his counsel. He also thinks a lot. Early this summer he found himself "kind of in a funk" thinking about Vietnam...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, | Title: William Sloane Coffin, Jr. | 10/5/1965 | See Source »

...plan, originated by Isaac Kramnick '59, Head Tutor in Government, was designed to end "the total anarchy of sophomore tutorial." It would have focused on twentieth-century political science, stressing the contrast between traditional and original approaches. Each tutor was to plan his own reading list on this topic...

Author: By Beth Edelmann, | Title: Gov. Alters Plan Of Soph Tutorial | 10/2/1965 | See Source »

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