Word: evolutionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always, Shaw enjoyed himself. He trotted out a string of British and Irish influencers whom most of the critics had never heard of or never deigned to bother with. But high up on Shaw's eccentric list was eccentric Samuel Butler (1835-1902), novelist and creative evolutionist. "It drives one almost to despair," snapped Shaw, "when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of All Flesh making so little impression that when I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh, free, and future-piercing suggestions have an obvious share...
...kind of assignment he relishes: a special request for a quiverful of Shavian shafts. The Communist Daily Worker asked him to comment on the indictment of the twelve American Communist leaders (TIME, Aug. 2). G.B.S., who has claimed to be an atheist, an anti-Darwinian (see BOOKS), a "creative evolutionist" and a vegetarian, "refrained from comment" in 212 words. Sample: "The founder of Christianity was a Communist with eleven faithful apostles, chief of whom* struck a man and his wife dead for keeping back their money from a common pool instead of sharing it. But American legislators, ostensibly Christians...
...scientists working on military devices. Harvard's Conant, a chemist by trade and a member of NDRC, recently spent a month in Britain sharing his secrets, filling his head with new ones. Britain's scientific ambassador to the U.S. is Charles Gallon Darwin, grandson of the great evolutionist and head of Britain's National Physical Laboratory...
...Charles Darwin wrote: "Without the work of this humble creature, who knows nothing of the benefits he confers upon mankind, agriculture, as we know it, would be very difficult, if not wholly impossible." The great evolutionist was referring to the lowly earthworm...
...pterodactyl. On his fossil hunts in the Wild West he dis covered that U. S. dinosaurs sometimes weighed 40 tons, that cretaceous birds had teeth, that cretaceous seas contained sea serpents. He helped organize the U. S. Geological Survey (see p. 66), was a lifelong friend of British Evolutionist Thomas Huxley. He exposed the Cardiff Giant ("a gypsum man, ten and a half feet long, nude, virile and unabashed") as a fake. His biography by Clara LeVene and Professor Schuchert, one of the few co-workers whose respect and affection managed to transcend the great paleontologist's "autocratic tendency...