Word: evolutionism
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The primary dynamic feeding the confrontation. the one we must first explore, is a frustration that has grown to incendiary proportions. Each exercise in impotence, each powerful and "respectable" show of strength in opposition to our government's policies, has added decisive increments to a reservoir that finally overflowed. The...
History has treated Scopes well, and he was greeted like a returning hero. A state representative and a judge even gave him the long-delayed evidence that his battle for academic freedom had been successful: a copy of the 1967 state law repealing the old anti-evolution statute. For his...
The target for Apollo's lunar module, which the astronauts have named Aquarius, is an area near the Crater Fra Mauro (named for a 15th century Italian monk-cartographer). Located 110 miles from Apollo's Ocean of Storms landing site, the target area is covered with jagged hills...
Assailing the views of Vice President Agnew at an alumni banquet, Yale President Kingman Brewster delivered himself of some convoluted prose worthy of Spiro himself: "Perhaps the greatest contribution we can make is to reaffirm in the face of those who would seek to coerce conformity that practical progress relies...
To change he then opposes a personality determined to preserve or achieve an ideal, static set of relationships. The romantic determination of his protagonists, to fashion the world according to their subjective demands, becomes destructive as it opposes itself to an evolution that time necessitates. Children like Why reveal this...