Word: variant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fighting Cock (adapted from the French of Jean Anouilh by Lucienne Hill) reveals an Anouilh more balanced than bitter in mood, and more effective as a philosophe than as a playwright. His play is an often witty variant on a persisting theme, perhaps all the more persisting because it poses an insoluble question. The Fighting Cock concerns a retired general disgusted by a world he finds filled with "cheats" and lost to honor. He would like to stir up a movement to get rid of the "maggots." Against this testy idealist rooted in the past, Anouilh sets a number...
...related process, testosterone can be transformed into testololactone. Chemists at E. R. Squibb & Sons had found that bacteria could make testololactone by fermentation. When they tried to produce it this way in bulk, said Dr. Segaloff, the bugs rebelled and turned out instead a variant called delta-1-testololactone. It was just as well: testololactone has proved to have all the virilizing properties of testosterone. But the delta1 variant, tested so far in 24 patients, proved in seven cases to be as potent as testosterone in suppressing cancer growth, and with no virilizing effects...
Tibetan Buddhism, called Lamaism, is a variant of Mahayana, basing a large part of its practice on the revelatory Tantric texts. It absorbed much of the dark, animistic Bon Po religion of primitive Tibet and swarms with demons and fiercely copulating gods. The world is haunted by such specters as the ro-langs, or standing dead. They walk with their eyes closed, never change direction, and their touch is fatal to human beings. There are mountain demons who suck the life from unwary travelers, demons who cause hailstorms and earthquakes and eclipses. The Tibetan Buddhist contemplates an intricate pantheon, from...
...plant physicians began hearing complaints that workers recently exposed to dust in the manufacture of calcium cyanamide*could not take a drink-it made them sick. Disulfiram proved a disappointment: it was too dangerous for widespread use, required a doctor's close supervision. But last week a medicinal variant of cyanamide was released in Canada for prescription sale, on the strength of researchers' reports that it is almost as potent as disulfiram and far safer...
...Bridge World Editor Alphonse Moyse Jr. says Reader Howell has submitted a variant of the legendary Duke of Cumberland whist hand. The duke, sitting South (in this version), failed to take a single trick-and lost a bet of ?20,000 to West...