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...theories of Malthus and Darwin, he said, gave man the idea that he was reproducing himself faster than technology could raise production, and that life was a matter of the "survival of the fittest" a "you-or-me" question. The fundamental mandate of political leaders was to assure that "it wasn't their country that went down." Wars became the order...
Charles Darwin propounded the doctrine that evolution occurs by natural selection, in which some individuals happen, by chance combination of inherited characteristics, to be better adapted to their environment than others-"survival of the fittest." Geneticists later concluded that inheritance was locked in a set of genes that usually bred true, but once in a while spontaneously "mutated" to produce a new characteristic that thereafter bred true and thus produced evolution's changes. This knowledge undercut the Lamarckian concept-named for Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829)-that characteristics could be acquired in response...
Survival of the Fittest. Despite the Globe's circulation inroads and the P-D's belated concern, the Globe has a long row to hoe before it catches up with the Post-Dispatch as a newspaper. Amberg has brought many improvements to the Globe-Democrat; yet the P-D remains more thoughtfully written and edited, has much superior Washington and foreign coverage. Says one Post-Dispatchman: 'We're harder to read, we're long as hell, and sometimes we're not as bright as we should be. But a serious reader has to see the Post-Dispatch to know what...
Nothing new in sight till September. In the meantime, the fittest shows survive both heat and familiarity. Among the musicals still leg-kicking: West Side Story, about street-fighting Montagues and Capulets; Fiorello!, a lively reminiscence of the Little Flower; and Bye Bye Birdie, a romp about a rock-'n'-roll groaner. On the dramatic side, there are The Miracle Worker, the story of the child Helen Keller and her teacher, superbly played by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke; The Tenth Man, Paddy Chayefsky's modern use of ancient Jewish mysticism; and Toys in the Attic...
...Soho provides a background of night life and street life, strippers and whores (it's pre-Wolfenden and Street Offenses Act). Harvey's treatment of his common-law wife, Sylvia Syms, an ecydysiast who wants to be a singer, heightens the immediacy of the theme of survival of the fittest...