Word: lorenz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Someday I'll Find You). The other group pinches a satiric nerve with droll spoofery (Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs. Worthington). As a lyricist, Coward was a direct descendant of W.S. Gilbert, and in the modern musical theater only Lorenz Hart and Cole Porter were his peers...
...Vienna than the Scandinavian north, but why carp? In a show almost without choreography, Sondheim's lyrics are nimble-wilted dances. Literate, ironic, playful, enviably clever, altogether professional, Stephen Sondheim is a quicksilver wordsmith in the grand tradition of Cole Porter, Noel Coward and Lorenz Hart. There are three standout numbers. One is Liaisons (Gingold), a lament that courtesans are not the elegantly larcenous creatures they used to be. Equally arresting are Send In the Clowns (Johns), a rueful gaze into the cracked mirror of the middle years, and The Miller's Son (Jamin-Bartlett), a gath...
...could not prevent the forced exodus of some 2,000 Jewish scientists. Finally, when World War II ended, the great research organization was as shattered as Germany itself. Renamed in honor of Planck in 1948, the society began its slow postwar revival. At the Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Konrad Lorenz's experiments with geese and fish shed important new light on aggression and other behavioral characteristics. At the Institute for Cell Chemistry, Feodor Lynen won a Nobel Prize for his work on fat metabolism. Another Nobel Prize went to Manfred Eigen of the Institute of Physical Chemistry...
...savage biology and driven by killer instincts. More sophisticated scientists think otherwise, and one of them, Anthropologist Alexander Alland Jr., has now produced a ringing rebuttal. In a new book called The Human Imperative (Columbia University; $8.50), Alland counters the sophistry of Robert Ardrey (The Territorial Imperative), Konrad Lorenz (On Aggression) and Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape) with a view of man as a human animal, a creature whose biologically rooted nature can be modified by the uniquely human creation that sets man apart from the apes, his culture...
...many contemporary thinkers would accept this view of man as essentially savage. True, Freud once believed that human beings are born with an aggressive instinct and that "the aim of all life is death," but he later abandoned the idea. Currently, Ethologist Konrad Lorenz insists that aggression and violence are inevitable because they were bred into man by natural selection during prehistoric times. But there is widespread disagreement with this theory. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, for example, considers the Lorenz view "nonsense," calling it "not explanation but rationalization...