Word: darwinian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...horrible Darwinian implications of the whole display, though, are too great to leave one's conscience unburdened, particularly when one owes his very existence to some of these stuffed species. Perhaps the zoologists have tried to laugh away any feelings of guilt, with the Proboscis Mankey as the butt of their joke. Like Rostand writing of Cyrano, the placard describes Proboscis as of "large size, bright colors, and grotesque nose . . . curiously elongated and flexible . . . The special use to which he puts it is doubtful...
Died. Dudley Field Malone, 68, who made news all through the '20s as a big-time lawyer in Manhattan and Paris, a friend of celebrities, a mixer-in-politics and a taker-up-of-causes (feminism, persecuted Reds, Tennessee Darwinian John T. Scopes); of a heart ailment; in Culver City, Calif. Seldom in the limelight since the early '30s, Malone became a Hollywood lawyer, played Winston Churchill in the 1943 movie Mission to Moscow ("All lawyers and politicians are actors at heart...
...Fabre and his world of insects [TIME, Aug. 22], one of the most interesting facts about the work of the great entomologist is that he constantly affirmed and reaffirmed that the insect world contained the living, moving proof that the whole idea of evolution was false, and the whole Darwinian concept founded on a series of misreadings of nature...
...Outlawing Marxism is like outlawing Darwinism," he continued. However, he declared that the current attacks on the Darwinian theory by the Soviet scientists were not attacks but merely supplementary changes...
...addition to being a playwright, music critic, economist and socialist soapboxer, Shaw has long fancied himself an amateur biologist. When Darwinian doctrine swept England like a Caribbean storm, Shaw thought it a creed "compared to which the" story of Noah was cheerful and encouraging," and-stoutly fought against Darwin's claim that there was no purposive mind behind the universe. Even those who thought he lost the battle of science should readily admit that he wins the battle of wits, hands down...