Word: homo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genocidal plan for making Midway Island safe for Homo Americanus volitans makes one suspect that the Navy is not up on its Ancient Mariner. If it were, the Navy would know that the penalty for killing an albatross is disaster...
Whether or not you feel that Homo sapiens is an advance over hippospongia, multiplying application rates suggest that this traditional academic program still has something to offer to somebody. If we are to decide whether that mysterious something is approriate to women's education we must now undertake to define...
...years later Smellie had written, or pasted together from such sources as Hume, Locke, Voltaire and Francis Bacon, the remaining two volumes. The 2,659-page set contained a long description of Noah's ark and a terse write-off of "Woman": "The female of man. See HOMO." It advised that tobacco could desiccate the brain to "a little black lump consisting of mere membranes." It was salted with 160 excellent engravings by Bell, including a handsome map of North America...
John Foster Dulles was born in the antiseptic glare of a North American hospital. He was a homo sapiens, and was well raised. He worked on Wall Street, which is somewhere between Prospect Park and the Bronx Zoo. He liked Giant Pandas, Wall Street Bulls, and trial balloons. There was every reason to believe that he would like Hermione Esmerelda and that Hermione Esmerelda would like...
...great, the vain and the beloved for posterity. One of the few topflight 20th century sculptors who kept at portraiture is Britain's U.S.-born Sir Jacob Epstein, 77. Best known for the press outbursts that until recently greeted such Epstein works as his pregnant Genesis, blocklike Ecce Homo, and misshapen Adam, Epstein holds that portraits rank with the monumental in sculpture. "It's good stuff," he says. "What could be more interesting than a human face...