Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These rude views are advanced in a new book called Heredity and Its Variability, by the U.S.S.R.'s T. D. Lysenko (King's Crown Press; 50?). In the ancient heredity v. environment feud, Comrade Lysenko is definitely an environment man.
All of which, says Lysenko, is nonsense. Heredity, he believes, changes spontaneously-and can be changed artificially. His key chapter has the thundering Marxian title "The Liquidation of the Conservatism of the Nature of Organisms." He explains that a plant variety often gets into a rut. Thus, it tries to...
She performs against the backdrop, of a well-proportioned cast. Senator Langdon's genial culture is made to evolve into inbred race hate. Cousin Roy Maxwell, sensitive only to political breezes, declaims the rationale of the modern South to Howard Morrick, enlightened Yankee author, and defender of Nevvy's naturalness...
Last week North Carolina's Governor R. Gregg Cherry commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Said he, in a statement rare for a Southern governor: "The crimes are revolting, but a part of the blame . . . arises from the neglect of the State and society to provide a better environment...
A famed child-psychologist and long time professor at the University of Iowa, in 1938, tweedy, babyfaced, middle-aged George Dinsmore Stoddard jolted his colleagues by demonstrating that I.Q.s (supposedly determined at birth) could be altered by environment. The methods: 1) planting some 300 children of feeble-minded parents and...