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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western genetics does not maintain that "backward" races are backward because of hereditary deficiencies. All humans, say the geneticists, have about the same genetic potentialities. Individual deficiencies come from defects of culture, early nutrition, etc. But such details of accepted science are not likely to be expounded by Soviet propagandists. Western genetics (primacy of heredity) can be made to sound like a "master race" doctrine, and Lysenkoism (primacy of environment) can be made to sound like light and hope-out of Soviet Russia...
Gangrene & Thin Gruel. Last week when his transfer was announced, pink-cheeked Father Gannon stretched back from his littered desk with feelings of relief and regret. At 55, he still had plenty to say about education; he acknowledged that he had not accomplished all that he wanted in his 13 years at Fordham. Thinking back on it, Father Gannon remarked that his assignment had been "interesting" and "constantly varied" but there had been drawbacks. He had felt "illiteracy climbing up my legs like gangrene," seen his own writing turn to "thin gruel." Moreover, there had been little time for reading...
...scenery: "Generally speaking.. . . designed by the outstanding and most famous scenic designers in the world . . ." (He didn't say when...
Said Conductor Dorati: "This piece I can-how you say it?-underwrite without hesitation. We could have done Beethoven's Seventh, but who the hell cares any more to hear an orchestra play that...
...time Witcutt will do no preaching, but he will sit with the congregation until he "reabsorbs the atmosphere of the Church of England." Though he had little to say to the press, he admitted: "The reason I left the Catholic Church was because I grew to dislike the rigidity of the Roman Catholic faith; I prefer the broader outlook of the Church of England...