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Instead of seeing an analyst, Sonny goes off on an African safari. While watching the lions gnaw on bits of zebras and wildebeests, he ponders the survival of the fittest and all the superb reasons for putting Castleman behind him. But it is no use. Only Castleman's death will release the younger man from his loyal bondage. Even worse, only Castleman's death, which does not oocur until seven pages from the end, releases readers from one of the more tiresome fictional presences in recent memory...
...great English naturalist Charles Darwin made "survival of the fittest" part of the language. He also gave his name to the remote capital of Australia's tropical Northern Territory, and all too often the city of Darwin has been subjected to the harsh and literal testing of that phrase. In 1897, a cyclone leveled the cliff-perched port town, killing 28 of its residents. In 1937, it was flattened by another tropical storm. Five years later, Japanese Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, blasted the city with 188 bombers, killing 243 people and wounding...
Adaptation, you understand, is a natural process, or so said Darwin. It simply happens. Awareness of adjustment facilitates comfort, but introspection can destroy. So be careful. It all boils down to Survival of the Fittest. And fitness at Harvard necessitates pain--lots...
...printed daily is not an impossibility at Harvard. We have the best of good wishes for our new contemporary, and congratulate it on its successful debut.... we should be sorry to say farewell to The Echo, but we are willing to accept the principle of the survival of the fittest. It is too early to predict which this will prove to be in the present instance...
...subject that he calls "dysgenics." He defines the term as "retrogressive evolution through the disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantaged." More simply stated, Shockley's argument is that blacks are genetically inferior to whites in intellectual capacity, and that in violation of the law of survival of the fittest, society encourages blacks to pass on their inferiority to their children. In a series of writings over the past decade, Shockley has called this process "downbreeding the poor" and warned that it will lead to "genetic enslavement." He has even proposed that bonuses be paid for the voluntary sterilization...