Word: homo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Homo Hero. Tennessee Williams' stories are less successful. This is especially true of Williams' grotesque title story, a long, long fable that is intended to be a parody of spy thrillers and introduces its readers to debonair Gewinner Pearce, a homosexual Superman. Of the remaining four stories, the best is Man Bring This Up Road, a chilling confrontation between a hickory-hard, female old moneybags and an aging, importunate beach boy-which provided the theme for Williams' 1963 flop play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore...
...bone, Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology determined that the bone must be 2,500,000 years old. Since it is a piece of humerus, or upper arm, conforming remarkably to the skeletal structure of modern man, the Kanapoi hominid apparently lived 750,000 years earlier than Homo habilis, previously thought to be man's oldest direct ancestor known to have walked erect. Alas, the Kanapoi hominid probably didn't live very long. "The lake there teemed with crocodiles," said Patterson...
...adults. But there has been no relaxation of penalties for indecent acts committed in public, and offenses against youths under 21 are dealt with more harshly than before. What the bill does, says Laborite Sponsor Leo Abse, is remove the"brutal choice" that offered the would-be law-abiding homo "either celibacy or criminality, and nothing in between...