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Conversion, traditionally as basic to Christianity as prayer, is today a concept in evolution. Conservative and fundamentalist church groups still hew faithfully to the Biblical injunction, "make disciples of all nations, baptizing them." Among renewal-minded clergy of the main-stream Protestant faiths, there is widespread doubt about whether gaining...
With the support of France's famed Pianist-Teacher Marguerite Long, Monique is negotiating with piano manufacturers. Despite engineering problems, she hopes to have a working model by the end of this year. To traditionalists who balk at her spaceage innovations, she explains: "The evolution of these instruments has...
Fried finds the basis of modern art in the changed relationship between artists and society: "the alienation of the artist from the general preoccupations of the culture in which he is embedded." A consciousness of art history conspires to make the modern artist highly self-critical, content with a particular...
The Elliot Medal, given in recognition of published works in zoology or paleontology, was presented to Simpson for his book, "Principles of Animal Taxonomy," published in 1961 by the Columbia University Press. The book sets forth principles and procedures for categorizing the thousands of distinct organisms, both living and fossil...
With the help of medicine, the human organism has adapted to a continually changing environment, "but now," added Dr. Salk, "man is bringing vast and rapid changes within his environment, and is producing an effect in which it is man, not nature, who exerts a dominant influence on the future...