Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...molecular biology's leap into prominence has been amply documented. In 1953, at Britain's venerable Cambridge University, two brash young scientists named James Watson and Francis Crick made a discovery comparable to the fissioning of the atom or Darwin's publication of Origin of Species. In a matter of months, after cribbing clues from associates and competitors, Watson, then 25, and Crick, 36, cracked what they grandiosely called "the secret of life": they unraveled the long, spiraling architecture of the DNA molecule, a feat that suggested how heredity truly worked...
When spring is near the urge to swing a golf club becomes a terrible and irrepressible force, and it was this irrepressible force that overtook Fitzgibbons yesterday afternoon. The sentiments of Fitzgibbons as he prepared to take the first swing of spring were echoed by Bernard Darwin when he wrote of his own first shot one spring long ago: "I was assured that I should be able to do it another day, but I did not want to do it another day; I may never want to do it on any other day, but I did so dreadfully want...
...Named for the ship that carried British Naturalist Charles Darwin on his 1831-36 voyage...
Intellectually speaking, G.B.S. was a great pass receiver. When astrodomed quarterbacks like Ibsen, Nietzsche, Darwin and Marx rifled ideas through the air, Shaw would snatch them and race down the field for dramatic touchdowns, spouting aphorisms and paradoxes as he went...
Devo: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (Warner Bros.). Rock satire that works. Devo is a band of crafty loonies who play at being harbingers of a bleary future when the human species is sliding back down Darwin's scale. Space Junk and Uncontrollable Urge are among Devo's marching songs for"de-evolution"; they are also a rich source of silly...