Word: darwinian
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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...
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...