Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...manager, Dr. Will is well aware that any new branch of science gets a rough kicking around by the public until the idea has been well tested. Psychiatrists take some comfort in the thought that Galileo was jailed, that Lister was hooted at by his medical colleagues, and that Darwin, who changed the whole course of Western scientific thinking, was attacked viciously in his lifetime...
...miles from a postoffice (mail once a week, he thought, was quite enough), and had to approve every book young Lib read, except Pilgrim's Progress and the Bible. Once Lib brought home The Origin of Species; his father, who had heard fearsome things about the ungodly Darwin, looked it over, said, "I can't make it out. But I think the man is honest. Read his book." Young Lib hatched snakes' eggs in his mother's oven, began a small collection of plants, made notes on the weather...
Successor to Darwin? Sexologist Wilfred C. Kinsey was not taken aback by the uproar. He had predicted three years ago that his book might sell a million copies (all royalties would go back into the project). Journeymen book reviewers took a quick look and promptly hailed Kinsey as one of the greatest scientists since Darwin. He appeared to have found that some 85% of U.S. men have premarital intercourse, nearly 70% have intercourse with prostitutes, between 30% and 45% have extra-marital intercourse and 37% have some kind of homosexual experience...
...believe the atom bomb Is a good weapon," concluded Physicist Sir Charles Darwin (grandson of the original), after some thought. His feeling about it: too inconvenient against scattered troops-and nobody would use the thing anyway, for fear of getting one back...