Word: herds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life has changed, and to Author Stewart's way of thinking, the epochal events are those which changed it most, not those which made the biggest noise. The rise & fall of the Roman Empire? Probably less significant than the domestication of sheep, for when Man first learned to herd (about 10,000 B.C.) he revolutionized his ways as Roman roads and swords never did. The invention of printing? Important, says Stewart, by now hip-deep in the materialistic approach, but that of the water wheel was probably more important still. The Greeks? "A great deal of nonsense has been...
News dispatches solemnly reported an Arab tale of a boy who lived with a herd of gazelles in the Syrian desert. He browsed and watered with them, sped over the sand with them when they fled the hunter. In fact, he ran at a speed of no less than 50 m.p.h.* for several miles before a jeepload of hunters finally overhauled him and took him into camp. Skeptical Americans, who had been raised on such fare from P. T. Barnum to Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, heard and grinned...
...from the first week's walk through the underbrush was a pair of brothers named Murray W. and Dr. Henry M. Garrson, who had gone into war contract work with less than a shoestring, come out with a fortune. Flushed with them, if not actually part of the herd, was a U.S. Congressman...
Einstein was once violently pacifist. In 1930 he wrote: ". . . That vilest offspring of the herd mind-the odious militia. . . ." After Hitler, his thoughts became somewhat more martial. He is also a Zionist ("The Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew"), an internationalist ("Nationalism is the measles of mankind"). Einstein claims that he is a religious man ("Every really deep scientist must necessarily have religious feeling"). But he does not believe in the immortality of the soul...
...lives on a scale befitting his eminence. There is an organ in his $50,000 lakeshore house near Cleveland. Outside, a small herd of deer and a covey of pheasants cavort on the grounds. His recreation room is equipped with Pullman berths for visiting union brothers...