Word: simians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lecture platform and "a certain ruthlessness," Huxley loved to bandy texts and split hairs with the theologians. He signed letters in mock church Latin, was "Father-in-Science" to disciples, and called himself the episcopophagous (bishop-eating) Huxley. When "Soapy Sam" Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, twitted him on his "simian ancestry," Huxley smoothly played the wounded gentleman and made the cleric look like...