Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tackling the transformation of Willy Loman from a struggling, middle-aged no-name into a defeated, desperate old man, Larry O'Keefe is nothing short of fantastic. O'Keefe makes this already difficult role even riskier by assuming the burden of a believable New York accent, yet he succeeds brilliantly...
The process of reconciling ethnic identity with the pressures of assimilation is an "ongoing" one, Asian-American playwright David Henry Hwang said at a speech in Sever last night, pointing to phases of "evolution" in his own work.
This evolution of American official attitudes has been subtle and uneven. It has been couched in caveats, often obscured by ambivalence and articulated, sometimes inarticulately, by a Chief Executive who has no flair for geopolitical grand rhetoric and has a tendency to step on his applause lines. Still, the change...
Dolphins might have avoided all this attention if evolution had contrived to give them a permanent frown instead of a permanent smile, or if their foreheads, which bulge with echo-location organs, did not make them look so intelligent. But for whatever reason, people think of the animals as special...
Many schools are forced to spend more dollars on such security stratagems as metal detectors, concrete walls and, yes, bullet-ducking drills. -- California refuels the evolution-vs.-creation debate.