Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rich and secure enough to go on repeating themselves-or to do nothing at all-they have exercised a compulsion for growth, change and experimentation. Messengers from beyond rock 'n' roll, they are creating the most original, expressive and musically interesting sounds being heard in pop music. They...
IN THE BEST muckraking tradition. Paige has painstakingly documented the origins, evolution and likely prospects for the movement. The Right to Lifers presents not only the nuts and bolts of political organizing and funding, but also telling profiles of the movement's leaders. And occasional jobs not withstanding. Paige offers...
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy tells the fascinating story of this transformation, how Blacks broke down the doors of the exclusive club that was major league baseball pre-1948. Starting with the segregation of the early 1900s, Jules Tygiel delves into the evolution of the Negro...
Snobbery is always preposterous but also sometimes useful. "The use of forks at table," observes the English writer Jasper Griffin, "seemed to our Tudor ancestors the height of affectation, so, the first to follow that Italian custom doubtless did so, in large part, to impress their neighbors with their sophistication...
Ghiselin has used some of the funds to travel to coral reefs in the Pacific, and to "fool around" in the Darwin archives at Cambridge University. In fact, Ghiselin decided to give Cambridge $5,000 to help preserve the archives, and he also donated $10,000 to the University of...