Word: unaffectedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The bells sounded the appointed hour of 11 o'clock on June 28, and the snare drums rolled darkly for Sergeant Thomas Hickey. All the buttons had been slashed from his uniform coat, and the red epaulet from his right shoulder. The 80 soldiers in the ceremonial guard stood...
Isolating the active substance, a polysaccharide, in ten of the 28 varieties of seaweed, the scientists discovered that this substance acts by blocking the viral adsorption point in the cell membrane-the point where the virus normally enters the cell. Human cells in culture appear to be otherwise unaffected by...
It is in this context of economic chaos (475-per-cent inflation in 1975), foreign investors' pressure, a May 31 deadline on foreign debt, corruption in the Peronist government and slow gains in popularity by the Marxist left, that the officer corps decided that the time had come for a...
Strained Economy. The hot pursuit of guerrillas into Mozambique seemed an almost suicidal provocation, since Smith's government, primarily for economic reasons, cannot afford to alienate Mozambique. Landlocked Rhodesia sends more than half its exports (principally tobacco, asbestos and nickel) through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean ports of Beira...
He was, in short, an intensely specific artist. Specificity did not come easily, for any landscapist practicing around 1800 faced a battery of required stereotypes-chiefly the pastoral landscape with framing trees and unified brown tone, in the manner of Claude or Gaspard Poussin. Time and again, we see Constable...