Word: evolutionism
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The most inflexible institution of American life today is not the bureaucracy, not "the power structure," not "the Establishment," all of which are, in fact, powerhouses of change. The most inflexible institution is the dictionary. Particularly in politics we are caught between the very rapid movement of the objective world...
The juggernaut roll of the Big Beat, the slash of the old blues strain, the euphoria of yeh-yeh-yeh are all fading. With the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper (1967), rock crossed the line into self-consciousness, sophistication and experimentation. The result has been an exciting diversity of sounds produced...
Died. John T. Scopes, 70, Tennessee schoolteacher and central figure in the celebrated 1925 "monkey trial"; of cancer; in Shreveport, La. Scopes challenged a state law forbidding the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution. The trial produced one of the great confrontations of U.S. legal history, pitting Clarence...
As theory, Wills' perception of the injustices and frustrations caused by the free-market mystique is useful. And he offers a rather vague vision of an alternative society, pleading for "a period of intense experimentation" with different forms of community. He tends to slight the evolution that the nation...
Glacier's Edge. Nothing so simple will make life appear normal to her author. In her fourth published volume of poems, Procedures for Underground, Atwood compresses to an even more tactile intensity the panic that beats through her novel. Others may see evolution as a reasonably deserved survival of...