Editor’s Note: Gene Seymour is a critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. Follow him on X @GeneSeymour.

Editor’s Note: Gene Seymour is a critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. Follow him on X @GeneSeymour.

Returning to Purdue, he conducted his magnificent study on fine structure mapping of the rII gene ... daily for our family meal, a rather late lunch. It was in the lunchroom that Seymour would ...