Word: aping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest frogman in the metaphysical puddle was a great, eloquent, side-whiskered, doggedly handsome jumping jack of all intellectual trades called Thomas Henry Huxley. For a while, belief seemed to be a question of Genesis or The Origin of Species, Adam or ape, God or Darwin-and Evolutionary Biologist Huxley, as "Darwin's bulldog," was widely suspected of not being pro-God. For the line Huxley himself preferred to tread, a sort of high wire stretched between scientific fact and an unknowable God. he coined the word agnostic...
...same time he is a shrewd entertainer who admits he will stop at nothing to keep his audiences awake. In three of his pictures he has shown a Shakespearean fascination with the life of the strolling player, the poor mountebank who, "like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven as make the angels weep." Clearly, he sees himself as such an ape. Says Bergman: "I perform conjuring tricks with a conjuring apparatus so expensive and so wonderful that any performer in history would have given anything to use it. I am really a conjurer...
...Apologists emphasize that man cannot be a descendant of any living ape, and go on to state that man is not really descended from an ape or monkey at all but from an earlier common ancestor. In fact that common ancestor would certainly be called an ape or monkey in popular speech by anyone who saw it. Since the terms 'ape' and 'monkey' are defined by popular usage, man's ancestors were apes or mon keys (or successively both) . . . Man is in the fullest sense a part of nature and not apart from...