Word: darwinian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Decades ago, Fuller (who is now 66) drew from the Malthusian and Darwinian theses the implication that man, in order to survive, has adopted a "you-or-me" philosophy. To continue living in an over-populated world, man has taken to war. The consequent development of "weaponry" has, however, also produced improvements in the art of "livingry": progress has been especially notable, for example, in transportation and in mass production...
...says, "Agencies don't get paid for sticking to principles. If a company wants to go haywire in its claims, the agency either goes along or loses the account. Agencies need the moral crutch of Uncle Sam's regulations to resist the pressure of clients in this Darwinian jungle...
...facing Dwight D. Eisenhower, 70, has been the fact that after 20 chauffeu-sheltered years as general and President he no longer knew how to pilot any vehicle more complicated than a caddie cart. Last week-after studiously familiarizing himself with the mechanical mutants currently surviving Detroit's Darwinian struggle-Ike spun a 1958 Imperial through a Pennsylvania license test with all the aplomb of Stirling Moss. Final verdict on the General of the Army by his police corporal examiner: "An excellent driver...
...laws of natural selection as applied to U.S. automobile design make a fascinating Darwinian study: tailfins sprout timidly at first, grow into huge aerodynamic wonders and then recede; teeth and radiator ornaments come and go, sometimes leaving only vestigial traces; eyes, front and rear, grow from two to four, then slip back again to two; some rare species, such as the flat-backed, silver-mouth Edsel, vanish altogether. Thus, in the '50's, when cars became monstrous, chromium-plated caricatures, buyers reacted against this somewhat unnatural selection and rushed for the European small cars, so Detroit turned compact...
Unique Man. In reply, the Rev. Dr. Mascall is prepared to accept the victory of the Darwinian theory of evolution. But he does not think the story ends there. Biologist Huxley, he says, has overlooked the significance of two "striking conclusions" of biology that are of great importance to theology. The first: man, as an intelligent being, is unique on earth. The second: "With the appearance of an intelligent being, evolution as generally understood . . . has virtually come to an end, or, to state the position in a different way, an entirely new mode of evolution has come into being...