Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This space-time-matter organism is forever evolving. Mankind is the whole organism's "developing nervous system," and is due for greater changes still. Reiser insists that men must not leave their evolution merely up to cosmic rays as in the past, but must take their fate in their own hands, construct a rational, planetary society. If man does so, promises Reiser, "he will be superseded by the superman...
...human race has apparently set out to sound all the depths and shoals of the cosmic environment. It is a wonderful and a fearful quest...
...presented it to the University during the Tercentenary Celebration. The presentation was made on behalf of the Harvard alumni in China. The dragon-headed tortoise which supports the vertical stone occupies a very important but seemingly vague place in Chinese mythology. Sometimes it has been used as a cosmic emblem and sometimes as a symbol of uncleanliness, lack of chastity. Standing, as it does, between Boylston and Widener, it can hardly symbolize the latter. The inscription on the stone tablet is an expression of the donor's high regard for Harvard; it praises education, peace, and good will...
Stravinsky's Rite, which has caused high-brow audiences to rise, shout and pound on their neighbors' skulls in ecstasy, offered a serious problem. To match its cosmic hullabaloo, nothing less than a planetary cataclysm would do. So Disney men began studying nebulae and comets at California's Mount Wilson Observatory, mugged up on theories of protozoic life, earthquakes and other geologic upheavals, did portraits of every prehistoric monster in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History...
That all flesh is as grass-and mostly crab grass at that-is a juicy writer's thesis that seems incapable of being squeezed dry. One of the latest literati to draw blood from this cosmic lemon is Elder Olson, a young, Byronic-looking assistant professor of English at Illinois Institute of Technology. His The Cock of Heaven is a long poem about the irremediable genesis, incorrigible exodus and appalling exeunt of the Goddamned, salvation-proof children of Adam. For purely literary excitement, it should rank as the poetic book-of-the-year...