Word: woodwarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CURRIER HOUSE DINING ROOM, Rachel, Rachel (Joanne Woodward), Mar. 16, 17, 8 & 10, $1. Short, Films About Women, 1 x 1, Phoebe and The String Bean, Mar. 18, 8, free (sponsored by Radcliffe Union of Students...
Beatrice (Joanne Woodward) once a clown-of-the-party, has become the party's debris, wasted and neglected. Her house is a pigsty, her yard cluttered with junk; one daughter, Ruth (Roberta Wallach), is an epileptic teenager, one, Mathilde (Newman's daughter), lost to her out of a love for biology. With slatternly hair and frowsy bathrobe, Beatrice drags out her days on too much coffee and too many cigarettes, reading the want ads and trying to sell dance tickets on the phone. She wisecracks non-stop to waylay despair, but her sense of humor has gone sour and grates...
Robert B. Woodward, Donner Professor of Science, who headed the Harvard contingent, said that the success will have few immediate results, but it is possible that this breakthrough will lead to the discovery of synthetic compounds superior to their natural counterparts. "Natural materials are not always the best," he said...
More important than the actual synthesis of vitamin B-12 were the chemical principles developed during the investigation, Woodward said. Woodward and Ronald Hoffman of Cornell found new rules of "orbital symmetry" in organic compounds...
Professor Woodward was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his "new and daring philosophies of organic synthesis...