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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Dartmouth.) Walter Empson of Hillcrest High School in Dallas averaged only 600 on the tests, but was president of the student council and a star basketball player. His letter from Princeton was no surprise: "The coach told me some time ago that I was pretty well in." This sort of thing evokes the words of a top Eastern college representative, who interviewed a star quarterback (with fine marks) no' long ago: "Scholarships are made only on the basis of need, and we need...
...nuclei of reproductive cells are mere blobs of protoplasm, apparently much alike. But each of them contains a genetic "instruction code" that tells it how to develop into a particular sort of creature, ranging from a bacterium to a man. In the case of higher animals, the cell's instructions are carried by long, coiled-up molecules of DXA (deoxyribonucleic acid). In the instance of some viruses, which are the simplest of organisms, the code is found in RNA (ribonucleic acid), which is less complicated...
Last week, as a roundabout result of these international developments, a lively New Wavelet of cinematic creativity was rolling across the U.S. and gathering momentum by the moment. The beatnik film, Pull My Daisy, which runs only 29 minutes but seems considerably longer, is a sort of celluloid-muffled Howl. Financed (for $20,000) by a couple of Manhattan brokers, it features a few well-known beat bards (Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky) in a "free improvisation" on a scene from an unproduced play by Jack (On the Road) Kerouac. The beatniks stumble around a pad on Manhattan...
...organism must have one or the other to release unconscious emotional tensions. Deprived of dreaming, even when it gets "enough sleep," the system may turn to hallucinations as a substitute. Concluded Dr. Dement: "We believe that if anybody were deprived of dreams long enough, it might result in some sort of catastrophic breakdown...
Everyday crises of this sort are strangely reminiscent of what in TV parlance is known as "situation comedy." except that the meaning here is dead serious - adding up to a type of literature that might be called situation tragedy...