Word: darwinian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past heartily concurred. Said John T. Scopes, now 68, a retired geologist living in Shreveport, La.: "This is what I've been working for all along." Except for a legal technicality, Scopes might have achieved last week's victory more than four decades ago. Indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in the 1925 test case, he was convicted and fined a nominal $100 by a circuit court judge. Tennessee's Supreme Court later voided the circuit court fine, on the ground that the jury and not the judge should have set the penalty. By its action, the state...
...events of the unfilmed past--another requirement, in this case, of melodramatic genres. The grotesque levels of thievery and sexual blackmail implied make understandable an exhibited malaise (Chris generalizing supremely about all of Hamburg: "This place is dead. On Saturdays it's worse than France."), leading to a cynically Darwinian attitude toward self-preservation (Christopher: "I do have her interests at heart--as long as they're the same as mine."), leading to strange personal mannerisms (Chris's habit of repeating words and grimacing...
...both paths have led. The travelers now begin to exude a faint odor of despair: photographers still have no masterpieces to hang with the great paintings, and the parapsychologists have an equivalent problem. They have failed to work a great shift in popular thought, a psychological counterpart to the Darwinian impact, precisely because they are relying on a statistical preponderance of evidence rather than a single staggering tour de force demonstration to make their case. Out and out radicule and rejection breed action, but hesitating half-acceptance makes only for frustration...
Thus, by the classic Darwinian process of evolution by natural selection, the farther north man went, the more completely did the light-skinned survive and the dark-skinned...
...Brecht, who had never been to this country, Chicago suggested a dissipated, Darwinian atmosphere retaining traces of the then-recent Wild West. It epitomized the ruthless urban machine that consumed the poor, trying their sensitivity and testing their capacity for suffering. Chicago also illustrated for the playwright the intense loneliness of the human condition: Conversations take on the futile quality of dual soliloquys...