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...friend was bothered by all this, as he had every right to be since the heat forced him to keep his windows open, but he had learned not to pay much attention to it. Instead he worried about Charies Darwin, who he had conciuded was the gratest fraud of the modern age. My friend had quit his job some time before to devote his time to refuling Darwin, which he saw as his mission in life, so now he sits in his apartment and reads books about evolution and writes letters to Harvard professors trying to convince them that...
...Marshalltown, Iowa, 800 people gathered for a memorial service honoring Marine Lance Corporal Darwin Judge. He was one of the last four Americans killed during the final evacuation of Viet Nam. His parents had the added pain of knowing that in the confusion, Darwin's body had been left behind in Saigon. But Postman Henry Judge displayed no rancor. Said he: "We've always stood up for the Lord, our country and the flag." Added Ida Judge: "You know, if it's your turn to die -and only the Lord knows that-what more beautiful...
...equivalent of Dupin the relaxed thinker puffing on his meerschaum, scoffing at the scurrying police as they collect their clues. Worried because "the nineteenth-century pre-eminence of history in the sphere of intellect no longer obtains," intellectual and musical historian Jacques Barzun (University Professor at Columbia, author of Darwin, Marx. Wagner) has undertaken to incite resistance to modern modes of history. In Clio and the Doctors: Psycho History Quanto-History, and History (University of Chicago Press) he cites the depths of the problem he and some other older historians see: The historical sense in modern populations is feeble...
Still, he is bothered. "My circles have given me a pretty rough time. Some of the reviews [of About Behaviorism] are really vicious. But I don't read most of them... As one of my colleagues said, I've had 'the worst press since Darwin.' I'd have to say Freud would be a near runner-up on that. I get fantastic name-calling. I just don't understand why anyone would do it. A review of my book came out just a couple of weeks ago by a disturbed psychiatrist named Szasz: I'm a 'murderer, a megalomaniac...
...cost of reconstruction has been estimated as high as $780 million. Most of the city may have to be bulldozed over and completely rebuilt. Prime Minister Whitlam has pledged to do whatever is necessary to resurrect Darwin, and proud Australians seemed to agree that the cost would be worth it. In an editorial the Melbourne Age wrote that it is already anticipating the "time when the city named after the great student of nature's primeval forces [will] rise up again and contend with the wind...