Word: homo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With extreme sadness I note TIME'S apparent change in policy in handling copy on patri otic Americans and their counterparts. Under the title "Sloppy Citizenship," TIME, Nov. 16, referred to Hamilton Fish, C. Wayland Brooks, Clare E. Hoffman and some others as "Fuzzy specimens of Homo politicanus." I loved that phrasing. In a story on Dillard Stokes (Jan. 11), TIME referred to Burton K. Wheeler's attack on this brilliant reporter as a "tribute." Subtly done, I thought...
Despite the apparently amazing information that Latin Americans have almost the same traits as the homo sapiens of the California Basin, Hollywood has misrepresented South America once again. It looks like international libel laws should be set up, especially among Good Neighbours. In patios and skyscrapers ex-gaucho Adolphc Menjou putters dismally through various schemes to make his daughter, Rita, fall in love, but the plot stops there...
...Congress which will serve during what may well be America's most critical years, U.S. voters sent some fuzzy specimens of Homo politicanus...
...Homo Frustratus. In Denver, Cyclist Francis Sargent, nipped by a dog, fired his revolver, slightly wounding the dog and his own ankle, was arrested for cruelty to animals, given a suspended fine, stripped of his commission as volunteer officer of the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection. In Los Lunas, N.M., a prisoner made a jailbreak, leaped to the back of a horse, which promptly threw him off on his head. Deputies woke him up. In Santa Fe, J. D. Wilkerson wounded himself playing the musical...
What Then Shall We Do? This question Biologist Wells answers with another questionקs Homo Tewler born dumb or is he made dumb? Is Tewleremia hereditary or environmental? If the former, the end of man (thanks to the appalling power of human ingenuity) is not far off Another war or two will do it, if this one fails. But if, as Wells believes, Homo Tewler is a bundle of terribly conditioned reflexes, then he is redeemable. First however, he must discard his mental and social shackles, do the two things he is conditioned never to do: listen to reason...