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...greatly helped change that situation. He had speculated about evolution some years before Origin of Species was published, and in the five years after it exploded on the world (in 1859), Huxley exploded with it by issuing 46 major publications on subjects ranging from the fishes of the Devonian epoch to the New Labyrinthodonts from the Edinburgh coalfield. With a "basilisk artistry" on the lecture platform and "a certain ruthlessness," Huxley loved to bandy texts and split hairs with the theologians. He signed letters in mock church Latin, was "Father-in-Science" to disciples, and called himself the episcopophagous (bishop...
Mauro Pelliccioli, Milan art professor famed for his restoration of Leonardo's Last Supper: "Today more art is destroyed than is rescued by restoration. There has been no epoch so dangerous, so catastrophic for painting as that through which we are passing. It is the duty of our civilization to prevent the continued perpetration of this crime against...
...door began opening on the commercial jet epoch, White House concern mounted. President Eisenhower frankly wondered whether the U.S. was indeed ready for jet transport. "Somebody," he said in the spring of 1955, "has got to take a look." There followed a nine-month committee survey, which reported appalling conditions. A few months later, Ike called in Major General Edward Curtis, Army airman in World Wars I and II (Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Force, Europe), and then (as now) a vice president of Eastman Kodak Co., told him to get going on an analysis of the problems...
...after winning a thumping 366,790 votes and 16 seats in 1951 state elections in Lower Saxony, the party 1) demands that foreign troops be kicked out, 2) repudiates "the disgusting self-accusation that Germany alone was guilty of two world wars," 3) promises "to create a new epoch in history" without repeating Hitler's "mistakes." Led by paunchy ex-Brown Shirt Wilhelm Meinberg, 61, who says he is "proud" of having been a Nazi, the German Reich Party is a hard-core political nucleus keeping alive old slogans. Others work at it too, including some 40 Nazi...
...should have to fight a war, then it must be its own war. It must defend itself by itself and in its own fashion . . . Naturally, if the case demands, French defense will be coupled to that of other countries, but . . . the system of integration which prevailed during a certain epoch...