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...maintains that "the whole period between, say, Marvell and Blake was poetically barren." The two greats of the period, Dryden and Pope, he mercilessly unwigs: "[Dryden] earned the doubtful glory of having found English poetry brick and left it marble-native brick, imported marble." And Pope was a "sedulous ape." The 19th century fares little better. Wordsworth, according to Graves, "disowned and betrayed his Muse. Tennyson never had one, except Arthur Hallam, and a Muse does not wear whiskers...
...Guard sold 3,000,000 copies), but when it was all over, Stalin cut them down to size in a new purge. Described as "filthy" and "obscene" in journals controlled by Author Fadeyev's union were two survivors of the revolutionary epoch: Satirist Mikhail (The Adventures of an Ape) Zoshchenko and Poetess Anna (The White Flock) Akhmatova. Even Fadeyev, criticized in Pravda, had to eat a little crow. Told to rewrite Young Guard, he said: "I quite agree...
...testimony was stricken from the record because she had not witnessed the shooting). Sadie Brooks told of seeing a Negro man forced from a bus at pistol-point because he did not have the correct change. Delia Perkins testified that a driver had called her an "ugly black ape." Richard Jordan said his pregnant wife had been forced to give her seat to a white woman. Georgia Teresa Gilmore said when she boarded a bus, the driver shouted, "Come out, nigger, and go in the back door," and when she stepped off, drove away...
Both were at a meeting of anthropology scholars in New York a week ago Saturday when Johannes Hurzeler, a Swiss paleontologist, lectured on his thesis that Oreopithecus, a creature whose fossilized jaw-bone was found in 1872, was more human-like than ape-like...
Howells explained that Darwin was concerned primarily with proving how evolution takes place through natural selection rather than with tracing the ancestry of man. Hurzeler's theory, Howells says, does not disprove the belief of Darwin and of modern scientists that men and apes probably had a common ancestry. The theory merely asserts that man and ape separated into distinct species more than 10,000,000 years ago instead of more recently, as was formerly believed, Howells said...