Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Serious scientific thinkers have long speculatedand, indeed, sometimes fearedthat man may eventually be able to tailor living organisms, including himself, to suit highly specific needs. Though such "genetic engineering" is still a distant goal, it seemed just a little closer last week. After a dazzling series of experiments, researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo reported that they have succeeded many times in reassembling parts of three different amoebaemicroscopic, one-celled animalsinto one fully functioning new cell...
...matter of the Faculty Committee on Social Studies, I see a number of students who would like to enter that program but cannot because its size is restricted. A few of these may find in the Special Concentration option a way to hand-tailor a serious program, or they may discover in pursuit of such a program that one or another existing department can house them with reasonable resiliency. (Some students enter the Social Studies Program, as they enter Harvard College, because it has quality and distinction, whose educational goals are not in fact furthered by that particular choice...
...years, sales of loose tobacco for hand-rolled cigarettes have zigzagged downward, perhaps because Americans find rolling inconvenient when tailor-made cigarettes are so easily available. Prices for those tailor-mades, however, have zoomed. (In New York, a pack now sells for 55? to 65?, in San Francisco, 40? to 50?.) To fight that rise, the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. has now hit the streets with Laredo, a kit that might be called the Rolls-Royce of cigarette-rolling machines. Fast, efficient and all but completely foolproof, it turns out a filter cigarette in less than a minute. Included...
...might recommend an excellent little restaurant slightly off the tourist track. The Peopled Wound is valuable not because it makes some intuitive new leap of insight but because it gathers in one convenient place most of what has been said and thought about Pinter. The son of a Jewish tailor, Pinter grew up in the congested, polyglot and intensely familistic world of London's East End. His mastery of English contains elements of a quasi alien's act of assimilative will, an acute tuning of the ear to the language of success and survival...
Ermacora was less stingy with acquaintances or even strangers. A blind man in the Gare St. Lazare came in for a $10,000 windfall. A prostitute received $30,000 to buy an apartment for herself and her daughter. A tailor got an order for 25 suits, all picked up by men other than Ermacora; most found big-denomination bank notes tucked into the pockets. In all, his munificence came close...