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...carrying a bit more of that flesh than he would like. But his ample waist looks solid rather than soft; he is heavy in the manner of Hemingway, not Hitchcock. His bushy hair is white and cropped more conservatively than in the past, when he was the Medusa of late-night television talk shows. His eyes are clear and surprisingly blue. He moves with the grace of the boxer he has sometimes pretended...
Thomas' previous books, The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail, described many aspects of science, technology, computers, and their effects on human life. Writing in a graceful and easy prose, he showed a flair for bringing technical and erudite concepts within reach of a layman. In his latest book, he repeats this feat, writing smoothly and understandably of histocompatibility complexes, mycoplasmas, and endotoxins...
...create a politically minded person. Either that or a monk." Explains Henze: "Politics has become so much a part of my thinking and feeling that it is difficult to say where politics ends and my music begins." In 1968 the premiere of his oratorio The Raft of the Medusa had to be aborted when Hamburg police burst into the theater to quell a political demonstration; the work is dedicated to Che Guevara. Henze premiered his Sixth Symphony in Cuba in 1969, quoting a National Liberation Front song in the score...
Harryhausen's Medusa has a serpentine grandeur as she coils and strikes to avenge the wrongs men and the gods have done her. When Perseus finally severs her neck, cherry tapioca blood oozes out. And from the blood giant crabs and maggots form...
...pellucid collections of essays on evolution (Ever Since Darwin, The Panda's Thumb). Another is Dr. Lewis Thomas, 66, whose humane writings on biology and medicine in the pages of the New England Journal of Medicine became the basis for two bestsellers (The Lives of a Cell, The Medusa and the Snail). Others include Physicists Jeremy Bernstein, 50, a regular contributor to The New Yorker; Robert Jastrow, 55, head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies; and Princeton's Gerard O'Neill, 53, the leading apostle of space colonization. There is also the British physician Jonathan Miller, whose medical series...