Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Africa stare glassy-eyed from the walls. But most imposing of all are Hemingway's books. He consumes books, newspapers and random printed matter the way a big fish gulps in plankton. One of the few top American writers alive who did not go to college, Hemingway read Darwin when he was ten, later taught himself Spanish so he could read Don Quixote and the bullfight journals. Hemingway has never slept well, and reading is his substitute. Finca Vigia holds 4,859 volumes of fiction, poetry, history, military manuals, biography, music, natural history, sports, foreign-language grammars and cookbooks...
Because of Wriston's notion that any text-book is a poor book, the courses choose some classic work as their central theme. For example, Darwin's Origin of Species is taken as the central book in a natural sciences IC course. After becoming thoroughly acquainted with it, students are encouraged to explore, through additional reading and discussion, its effects on nations, religions, and individuals. Each professor designs his own course, for Wriston insists that for the teacher to interest and excite his students, he must himself be interested and excited...
Fresh Fatuities. Attlee, met by his wife in Singapore, last week coursed on down to Australia (at the government's invitation), spraying fresh fatuities as he went. In Darwin, he remarked that "I do not think we need have any worries about Communist China. Communist Chi na is too busy looking after its 600 million people. That's twelve times as many as I had to look after when I was Prime Minister." In Canberra, he assured a group of Australian M.P.s that "the whole Chinese people are out for peace," and declared that the Chinese leaders were...
According to one theory, mambo is an inevitable phase of cultural evolution, a resounding response to a major need Explains Darwin-minded Reporter Ed Wallace in the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "The rumba broke up the crowd of doleful listeners who had begun to accumulate like barnacles around the bandstand; it got people back on the dance floor.' The rumba came along just as dancers were becoming listeners. Then, when the kick of the rumba was beginning to wane, along came the mambo and eeuugghh! we're gone again...
...Fred Muggs, television's very own extension of the Darwin theory, departed last week on a good-will (i.e., publicity-gathering) round-the-world trip sponsored jointly by NBC and Pan American World Airways. Chimpanzee Muggs and his entourage (two owners, a writer, a cameraman and a man from American Express) are traveling in the front compartments of regularly scheduled passenger planes, will visit Paris, Rome, Cairo, Bangkok, New Delhi, Singapore, Honolulu, Havana. The Muggs staff expects to have no trouble with living accommodations; in some cities leading hotels are already grabbing for the honor of rolling...