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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...wonderful to drive fast," said Camus gaily, "when one is not driving oneself." At 2 that afternoon, the car sped through the town of Villeneuve-la-Guyard, about 80 miles southeast of Paris. A few minutes later it lurched out of control, hurtled against one tree and smashed into another. When the police arrived, they found Gallimard fatally injured, his wife and daughter unconscious. In the back of the car, whose speedometer had stuck at 150 km. (94 m.p.h.), was the crushed and lifeless body of Albert Camus...
...hand, calls off the names of possible witches who might be responsible for the curse. If at the mention of a name the family head jerks his head, the diviner has a suspect. The local misheke then produces a poison from the powdered bark of the ihumi tree and, gathering all the villagers to drink, spikes the suspect's cup with his lethal potion. After four drinks, the suspected witch must walk or run through the village, to spread the poison through his body. If the victim vomits the poison and does not die. he is declared innocent...
...Darwin's publication of the Origin of Spe cies to summarize today's consensus of scientific thinking on the nature and origin of man. The ancestry of man is still not fully known, he conceded, but he denounced "pussyfooting" about apes in man's family tree...
...ancestors were apes or mon keys (or successively both) . . . Man is in the fullest sense a part of nature and not apart from it. He is not figuratively but literally akin to every living thing, be it an amoeba, a tapeworm, a flea, a seaweed, an oak tree or a monkey." In a word, man lives in a world "in which he is not the darling of the gods." In other species, Simpson points out, uncontrolled evolution often leads to degeneration and usually to extinction. "But man is not just another animal. He is unique in peculiar and extraordinarily significant...