Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This predatory vision of man's development is a violent one, but Ardrey tends to look upon all evolution as a harsh process. He claims death is the agent of natural selection, and mutation, the agent of adaptation. Actually, most selection is more gentle. Mutations are rare. Fluctuations in the gene pool of a species, caused by new gene combinations resulting from individual matings, are responsible for most adaptive changes in a species...
...occasional fancies is his sudden embracing, in times of crisis, of that seeming contradiction-in-terms, the naive politician. As her writers have known for a long time, American's dreams are more confused and tormented than her people will admit to themselves; from time to time the vision of a brave, fair hero "out of the West," come to deliver her from her own dreams, seizes her with a fury...
...gutty King Hussein, 26. has shown signs of settling down. Once a lavish aviation and sports-car buff, he has not had a new plane or car in three years. Recalling a Washington visit, he often says earnestly: "Our main problem is how to fit President Kennedy's vision and energy to Jordan's problems." Fortnight ago Hussein acted with vision, energy and political daring...
...standing nude by Raphael Soyer ("We see freshly the tired flesh, the dull face, the patient, loving application of paint"). Concludes Getlein: "You find that the only reasonable answer to 'What's new?' is given by the older painters, those who are still painting for vision, for representation, for organization, for almost anything except the wish...
...nation's first degree-granting Catholic women's college. Until she retired last year, Saint Mary's was graced by one of Catholicism's finest college presidents, Sister M. Madeleva, a noted poet. Its aim: to educate women "for immortality, for infinity, for the Beatific Vision...