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Word: speciesism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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On the field of battle remained three corporations - General Sexotics, Cybordelics, and Intercourse International. When the production of these giants was at its peak, sex, from a private amusement, a spectator sport, group gymnastics, a hobby, and a collector's market, turned into a philosophy of civilization. McLuhan, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Microchips and Men | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Lucy was not much more than a meter tall (just under 4 ft.), suffered from arthritis and had a head like an ape. But last week she became a front-page celebrity. Anthropologist Donald Carl Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History called a press conference to claim that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Lucy Link | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

He probably caught his idea for Man and Superman from Schopenhauer. The glum philosopher held that "egotism is deeply rooted-but the species has a greater claim on the individual than the perishable individuality itself ... The growing inclination of two lovers is really already the will to live of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Girl Gets Boy | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

The Muppet Show opens, always, with a knock at a dressing-room door. Scooter, the company's errand boy, sticks his head inside to announce curtain time. He is a human boy caricatured, and thus is a representative of one of the show's three main species. Human Muppets are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Devo: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (Warner Bros.). Rock satire that works. Devo is a band of crafty loonies who play at being harbingers of a bleary future when the human species is sliding back down Darwin's scale. Space Junk and Uncontrollable Urge are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pick of the Holiday Season | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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