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Folkman has done research on the tumor angiogenesis factor (IAF) which triggers blood flow release necessary for tumor growth, and Vallee has identified a link between a catalyst in the body and viruses known to cause leukemia in fowl...
...before that. And yet say the name Eddie Crane to a Harvard Square businessman and his face lights up--it's like a code-word for action. They won't say whether it was beneficial action, but businessmen will admit it was progress just the same. "Crane was a catalyst--the person to whom people went when they wanted something done," Cambridge Trust President H. Gardner Bradlee '40 recalls. "He was a real leader. He had the respect of the whole community...
...Times, Pinter reshapes the archetypes central to his work. In different ways, Deeley and Kate each fight to maintain their huddled numbness against incursions from the outside world, from the past, from the primal depths of their own subconscious. The catalyst of the conflict is Ann, Kate's companion of twenty years before. Anna brings a history heavy with menace, to upset the poor balance that Deeley and Kate had achieved through silence, and pierce their protective anaesthesia. Characteristically, Pinter leaves the true nature of the past events clouded in uncertainty--he himself does not claim to know exactly what...
...reputation initially gave him pause. Now he credits Mack with "putting a spark in this team." Quarterback Jim Plunkett, who has developed into one of the most effective tacticians in the N.F.L. this season, goes one step further. He calls Herron the team's "catalyst." In fact, Mack is just one of them. Plunkett has combined with College Teammate Randy Vataha for a crucial touchdown pass against the Giants and the game winner against the Rams. And Fairbanks has molded a three-linemen, four-linebackers "sponge" defense that has dampened opponents' rushing games. Going into last weekend...
...Lenin's wife), and the Rumanian dadaist Tristan Tzara, all of whom Stoppard brings together onstage (they never met in real life). All the ingredients of a fine intellectual comedy are there, but Stoppard fails to make them gel. The problem is the character he chooses to be his catalyst: Henry Carr. In real life, Carr, a British consul in Zurich, once sued Joyce to recover some money he'd spent on a pair of pants for an amateur production of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest put on by the local English-speaking community and co-produced...