Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"The Reagan revolution," observes Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "never moved as far as many on the left feared it would, or many on the right hoped it would." Just so. In American governance, the pendulum rarely makes radical swings. Change generally comes by evolution, not by sudden transformation. The only...
Armed with a growing number of examples, theorists refined their views of stellar evolution in general and of how, for some stars, an inevitable violent death occurs. The basic theme: a star performs a continual balancing act between its own immense gravity, which tries to pull all of its matter...
Light from a star that exploded when man' s ancestors were still working with stone tools reaches earth after a 170,000- year journey. Scientists are elatedly studying it because they believe such flaring stars account for the creation of elements, the birth of new stars and perhaps some of...
"For the last three months, we have reviewed the evolution of the NSC system since its creation forty years ago. We had extensive discussions with almost every current and former senior official involved in national security affairs. Case studies from several Administrations were also conducted to inform our judgements," reads...
How did misunderstanding and misogyny reach such deplorable heights? Dijkstra offers conflicting scapegoats. One is the rise of industrial capitalism, which made such physical and moral demands that men fled, exhausted, to the image of woman as "priestess of virtuous inanity." The other, which explains the failure of such canonization...