Word: aping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What started the ape men walking on their hind legs? Dr. Britton installed a female chimp named Bonga on a small island in a lake at Charlottesville, Va. Bonga could not swim and therefore had to make the best of it, even though the Virginia winter soon brought snow. When there was snow on the ground, Bonga walked upright, apparently to keep her hands and belly from getting cold...
This thinks Dr. Britton, may be how it all started. When glaciers crept down a million years ago, chilling the climate, the ape men walked upright to keep their hands out of the snow. Their brains got more blood and grew bigger. Then the ape men, according to the Britton theory, started the long intellectual climb that turned them into...
Much criticism of the Council traditionally comes from a misunderstanding of the group's role in the University. Some would have it ape the overzealous student governments of other colleges. Such conceptions of the Council's mission at Harvard are unjustified. Ideally the Council acts as a liaison group between faculty and students, serving the student body, and publicly representing...
...also earned the reputation of being crazy. When he came bouncing onto the dike-enclosed farming island on a motorcycle, to replace the old doctor who had died, the poor peasants refused to take him seriously. Short, bald, muscular and hairy-chested, he looked like a good-natured, grinning ape. Unlike his dapper predecessor, he wore the wooden shoes and coarse clothing of his patients. He cursed, he got into fist fights, and he loved his gin. When he showed up to deliver a baby on his first case, he even had a little trouble being admitted to the house...
Hackenfeller's Ape, by Brigid Brophy. Romance among apes can be very human and very funny, as seen in a young novelist's bright satire (TIME, June...