Word: homo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have usually seemed artistically outrageous, if not downright blasphemous. Epstein's phallephoric Adam was denounced as pornography; his Jacob and the Angel, billed as "the world's greatest shocker," went on tour in an artistic peepshow; G. K. Chesterton took one look at his square, squat Ecce Homo, then thundered at it as "one of the greatest insults to religion I've ever seen...
...human type existed contemporaneously with more primitive forms elsewhere . . . Here we are on the main line of evolution." Backed up by further study, his discovery may upset the prevalent notion that modern man is descended from the subhuman Neanderthal. According to Coon, the Hotu man, a true human (Homo sapiens), may actually have preceded Neanderthal...
Coon and Dupree found the fossils in a cave buried under more than 30 feet of gravel and sand. One of the skills had been completely shattered by the collapsed roof. Coon said fragments of the other two, when pieced together, indicated the cavemen were Homo Sapiens...
...Civilized Barbarian. Sinclair Lewis' works have become period pieces. But in his prime, Lewis had no peer as a knocker of "homo Americanibus." Sinclair Lewis wrote mainly about one man, George Follansbee Babbitt, of Zenith, the Zip town. George Babbitt was a helpless materialist whose one standard was money, a quavering conformist whose only security was found in the back-slapping approval of his fellow Rotarians. He lived in physical comfort greater than kings enjoyed in the past, but he rarely stopped to enjoy it, for he was a Hustler. He was ashamed of his secret dreams...
Nash may seem gleefully ready with complaining gibes at his white-collar victims of 20th Century living, yet in the end his motto reads: Homo Americanus, right or wrong...