LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LISTENING TO MAHLER'S NINTH SYMPHONY
By Lewis Thomas Viking; 168 pages; $12.95
Dr. Lewis Thomas, 69, has built a successful second career by giving many laymen their first clear overview of the moral and even aesthetic problems that can be encountered in the laboratory. The bestselling essays in The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail moved nimbly from the microscopic to the transcendental. Nucleoli revealed worlds of meaning; peptides hid oceans of being. Charmed by Thomas' low-key lyricism, the judges of the National Book Award granted the physician-researcher its prize for arts and letters...
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