Word: wendt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROAD TO MAN (431 pp.)-Herbert Wendt, translated from the German by Helen Sebba-Doubleday...
...destroy man. His ark is the archive in which he stores the species and records their curious lore; in recent years, many a neo-Noah has splashed a bright coat of paint on his scholarly scow and invited the general public along for the ride. Germany's Herbert Wendt (In Search of Adam) is a skillful skipper for this sort of trip, and he brings his passengers home with their intellectual pockets full of odd and fascinating information about almost everything from the housecat to the hoolock...
Like many popular zoologists, the author is sometimes tempted to play the Barnum of biology, and then he runs an occupational risk: to demonstrate that nature is not merely a catalogue of forms, he is tempted to set it up as a sideshow of freaks. Naturalist Wendt is preserved from this pitfall by his almost religious feeling for the mystery of life and its stupendous labor of evolution-a feeling perhaps most plainly and profoundly expressed by Spinoza: "The more man understands individual objects, the more he understands...
...Reports! (3) 4. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery ( 4 ) 5. Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank (5) 6. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (9) 7. The Proud Possessors, Saarinen 8. On My Own, Roosevelt 9. Brave New World Revisited, Huxley (8) 10. Chicago: A Pictorial History, Kogan and Wendt...
...Chicago: A Pictorial History, Kogan and Wendt...