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These provocative opinions appear in The Evolution of Man and Society (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London), the latest book by Cyril Dean Darlington, 65, a British geneticist, Fellow of the Royal Society and Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford. None of these academic credentials describe Darlington's true vocation. He is an intellectual maverick, dedicated to setting the scientific Establishment on its ear. His new book is the culmination of the author's long assault on the complacent conviction, still defended by many social scientists, that man represents a kind of dead end on the evolutionary trail...
This literary eruption, however, is relatively recent. "My childhood was more political than literary," says Lady Antonia. Her father was lecturing on politics and economics at Oxford, and her mother often joined him in active campaigning. "Books were considered the thing in our family even then, but everybody went off and made speeches about them instead of writing them." Except for Antonia. She wrote poems and plays ("At the age of eight, I thought it was perfectly easy to do anything that Shakespeare had done") and developed a lifelong passion for history and biography. "I had a childhood identification with...
Dislocated Neck. Turning such fantasies into real history had to wait until Antonia had finished secondary school at the rather precocious age of 15, spent two years dabbling at novel writing and then read history at Oxford. After her marriage at 23-in a replica of Mary Stuart's first bridal headdress -she warmed up with some children's books and A History of Toys...
Seltzer became an instructor at Harvard in 1959, received tenure in 1965, and was named a professor last spring. After receiving his B. A. at Princeton in 1954, Seltzer studied for a year at Oxford before pursuing his graduate studies...
Surrounding these two plays will be Die Schauspieltruppe Zurich's repertory of playwrights Durrenmatt, Frisch and Goethe (late September) and the Oxford-Cambridge Players' Twelfth Night (December). Last season, only the latter troupe attracted a large student audience to the Loeb, and their work was enthusiastically received. This year's production is directed by Jonathan Miller, Beyond the Fringe alumnus and one of the funniest men alive...