In Essence

other cells in the blood.
According to Langone, a Discover staff writer, doctors are only now beginning to explore uses of the new antibodies. Stanford researchers used monoclonals to push one California man's lymphatic cancer into remission in 1981. Johns Hopkins's Dr. Stanley Order has successfully injected patients with monoclonals bearing radioactive iodine to treat liver cancers. Because the monoclonals do not bind to normal cells, the patient avoids the side effects of conventional chemotherapy....

10 percent of those surveyed. Sixty percent of the households queried had invested nothing in conservation. As for the rest, the average outlay per household was only $266; those most likely to invest were young and relatively affluent.
The lesson: Higher energy prices spur less affluent families to reduce their living standards, while only those who can easily afford it make lasting improvements. Renters, one-third of U.S. families, have little reason to spend anything on conservation. And during...

Dana Gioia, in Executive Poets The Hudson Review (Spring 1983), 684 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Business and poetry may seem to mix like oil and water, but in America they blend surprisingly often. Despite the seeming contradiction, writes Gioia, a poet and General Foods executive, the nation's businessman-poets have profited from their dual identities.
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), vice president of a Hartford insurance firm and one of America's greatest poets, became the best-known hy- brid....

Leon Botstein, in Harper's (May 1983),
P.O. Box 2620, Boulder, Colo. 80321.
Despite his unrivaled stature in American music, Leonard Bernstein has never become the artist he could have been. Having just reached 65, Bernstein has one "last chance" for greatness, says Botstein, president of Bard College.
Bernstein's accomplishments are legion. His Omnibus TV shows of the 1950s and '60s popularized classical music in America and made him a celebrity. Like German composer Kurt Weill and...