Word: homo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snub A lady member of the club. The trouble is, this information Is all from jungle observation. When Reynolds wants a closer view He's forced to study in a zoo, And there like men, the apes in cages Are prone to sulks and lethal rages, Turn homo and refuse to play With any girl who comes their way, Lose all desire to drink or dance, Fall in a catatonic trance...
...Homo sapiens," he added, "shares the earth with several millions of other species, and just as man's activities affect other forms of life so do they influence man's well-being. Together with man's political behavior, man's environment is the crucial factor that determines his future. Thus the study of the whole organis mis not only deeply preoccupying in itself, but it has important practical applications...
...naked muscular forms that are sometimes bowed in resignation or despair, sometimes tensely flexed against their prison. In one series of paintings, the same rectangular form becomes the basis for a crouching, partially dissected Man Posing as an Animal, or a twisted animal in Resting Beast, or agonized Homo sapiens in Self-Wrestling. Following a visit last year to Chile, with which U.C.L.A. has a reciprocal art exchange program, Stüssy began painting women, a fact his sculptress wife, Kim, partly attributes to the shapely Chilean women Stüssy saw everywhere standing solemnly with folded arms...
...theory of racial inferiority lurks at the edges of current anthropological thought. In his book The Origin of Races, Anthropologist Carleton S. Coon suggests that Homo sapiens-modern man-evolved not once but five times, in five different places. The last to attain the fully human estate, says Coon, was the Negro-a conjecture that, if accepted, explains why Negro cultures in Africa lag behind the West's and why the Negro is not yet the white man's intellectual peer. According to Coon, he simply has not had enough time. Approaching the subject from closer range, University...
...early, conventional portrait done by Titian around 1525, from Omaha, hangs near his 1565, darkly haunting Ecce Homo, from St. Louis. The contrast between the pair illustrates the degree to which the Venetian evolved his own austere, luminous, intensely personal style that became finer and more influential among succeeding generations...