Word: fittest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Beecham, and the cast a group of top-flight singers, some from Manhattan's Metropolitan. Isolde spent her first act reclining on a shipboard divan, with the necessary business carried out by her maid Brangäne. The second-act love scene had perhaps the fittest staging in history: Tristan and Isolde sang on a couch. In the last act, Isolde was carried on stage by Tristan's old retainer Kurwenal and tenderly deposited beside her dying lover...
...carriers now authorized may embody part of that transition. The question raised by Seversky is whether the evolution of carriers can be successful enough so that ships of the sea can hold their own against ships of the air in the struggle, already begun, for the survival of the fittest...
...Other nominations, some facetious, some in earnest: The Bastards' War, Axis War, War For Freedom Forever, Dictators' War, The People's War, Survival of the Fittest, The Battle of Humanity, The Trouble, War for World Freedom, Stooge War, War of Extermination, Unnamed War, The Peace War, The Great War, Universal War, Hitler-Roosevelt War, War for Free Civilians...
...Competition plays a tremendously important part in evolution but the survival of the fittest does not always mean the survival of the strong, the predators, the parasites or even the adequately defended organisms." Sheer struggle tends to be supplanted by cooperation, Emerson observed, in each evolutionary step upward from the single cell to the many-celled organism to the family to societies...
From each of these isms, says Author Barzun, people learned that "the riddle of the Sphinx had been solved." The solution might be a little technical and complicated. "Yet at bottom lay a simple principle" - the survival of the fittest, the theory of value and surplus value, the leitmotiv and its function. "The public could thus enjoy the double pleasure of simpleness and profundity. . . . Physical struggle led to survival, physical labor to value, physical object to musical theme, and at the end each system yielded the most exalted objects of contemplation; the adaptation of living forms; a perfect state...