Word: darwinian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Darwinian delights of coeducation and rising college-entrance standards is that the smartest 10% of young Americans are now thrown to gether on campuses at the most susceptible age for romance and marriage...
...empty out, transfusions of fresh blood poured in off the street. Two children in a red dump truck wove in and out of the forest of legs. A middle-aged businessman sat twiddling his thumbs as he stared off into space, waiting for his wife to emerge from the Darwinian struggle...
...publications. Part of its attraction is its comfortable familiarity. But like men's clothes it is continually changing. Darwin taught us that evolution is the best kind of change to breed stayers." Since the Times has already proved its own inbred capacity for staying, we gratefully acknowledge its Darwinian tribute to our "powerful adaptability," its judgment that at age 40 we are "stimulatingly alive" and ready for a long future...
Despite the fact that they are members of the "world's most exclusive club," the freshmen members are, not surprisingly, tremendously diverse. The club had nothing to do with their selection. Most of them have passed through a rigorous Darwinian selection of one election after another, but the number of successful traits is surprisingly large. There are people who play the game scientifically, like win simply because they're nice, sincere guys-Kennedy or Dominick; there are people who Ribicoff or Ionize; and there are politicians like McIntyre or McGovern whom fortune has favored...
...young woman relatively untouched by the war, passes an existence surrounded by hulks who are psychologically still under the Nazi rule. Her parents are aging and broken; her lover lost all but his physical drives in the concentration camps. One of her brothers still tries to live by Darwinian prison morality, while the other drowns his self-pity in vodka. Throughout their actions parade chorus-like groups of foul-mouthed and drunken toughs, the spawn of occupation...