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Osborne's constant concerns are present-male camaraderie, an outcast's attempt to crash a caste system, scorn for a decadent elite-but in A Patriot for Me, they appear like footnotes on a blank page. History may be his favorite reading, but drama is no pastime art. Osborne's dramatic destiny is clear, demanding and inescapable. He alone can and must be the life of his plays...
These provocative opinions appear in The Evolution of Man and Society (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London), the latest book by Cyril Dean Darlington, 65, a British geneticist, Fellow of the Royal Society and Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford. None of these academic credentials describe Darlington's true vocation. He is an intellectual maverick, dedicated to setting the scientific Establishment on its ear. His new book is the culmination of the author's long assault on the complacent conviction, still defended by many social scientists, that man represents a kind of dead end on the evolutionary trail...
...step towards obtaining these views the subcommittee is inviting any Faculty member, or student wishing to do so to write a letter to the chairman, Dean Brooks. After receiving such letters the subcommittee intends to invite specific individuals, representing either themselves or organized groups within the University to appear before the subcommittee in closed session to set forth these views...
...hoped that all individuals who wish to appear in person may be afforded an opportunity to do so, but if too many so desire it may be necessary for the committee to make a selection, based on the letters, of those who will be invited to meet with the subcommittee in order to obtain a representative sample of viewpoints...
...astronomers have aimed their telescope at several features on the sun, including "active regions"-the eruptions of hot material that appear against the "cooler" regions of the sun's surface. Active regions increase and decrease over an 11-year cycle. "This year is supposed to be a solar maximum-a period of maximum solar activity-but in spite of that, the sun has been notoriously quiet," Reeves said. "But this week the sun has perked up again...