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...reader of The Poor Mouth will convert to Gaeligorism) we owe this Irish luck to the growing influence of the Flann O'Brien cult, though Flann had little to do with this book of Nolan's. The Irish have known Flann, Myles, and Nolan for a long time, but though more Ph.D. dissertations have been written on Flann O'Brien since O'Nolan's death in '66 than were written on Joyce in the first ten years after his death, the reading public in this country rarely encounters O'Brien's four English novels: At Swim-Two-Birds...
...kidney transplanters owe much of their success to a rapidly emerging science: immunology. Its practitioners devote themselves to the extremely complex task of finding ways of overcoming the body's natural defenses against foreign cells, so that transplanted tissue will not be rejected. Up to now, the usual tactic has been a form of biochemical overkill known as immunosuppression: the transplant patient is heavily dosed with drugs that interfere with the function of white blood cells-the major weapon of the immune system-and block the formation of antibodies. These are the wondrous proteins designed by nature to seek...
...that prompted the self-exile of one of Sweden's most creative citizens: Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, 58, who settled in Hollywood in April after suffering a nervous breakdown brought on by his arrest on tax-evasion charges. (The courts have yet to decide whether Bergman does indeed owe back taxes...
...nations of Europe, Asia and Africa mostly owe their existences to accidents of geography or language, the fortunes of war or interference from imperial powers. But the U.S., to a very great extent, is the product of its citizens' own ingenuity. Faced with an untamed wilderness and distances their European forebears could barely comprehend, the settlers who came to colonize the new land responded by becoming a nation of tinkerers, backyard inventors and, ultimately, technologists. Now, lacking a wilderness but confronted with challenges as great as those faced by their ancestors, mid-20th century Americans are responding similarly...