Word: evolutionism
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Max Abramovitz, the architect for Lincoln Center's first constituent, has presided over a pleasing and very successful mingling of art and science. He began the evolution of Philharmonic Hall in 1957 and proceeded through almost a hundred designs in over a thousand renditions, before the final plan was established...
And yet the apparent hopelessness of conditions in Mississippi has made force the only available course of action. There is little chance in Mississippi that an intellectual community will lead the people toward rationality; there are not the vaguest signs of an evolution toward moderation. Not one person at the...
The irony of De Gaulle's evolution is that it took yet another war with Germany to persuade him that German and Frenchman could and should be partners. In his memoirs. he describes the thoughts that filled his mind in 1945 while inspecting French occupation forces in Germany.
Perhaps a man's faith in the afterlife necessarily falters the moment he starts seriously to probe the origins of the concept among the primitive men of 30,000 years ago, who provided their corpses with weapons to see them through death's terrors. Obviously the idea of...
It was the big tone, the rhythmic stride and the air of unfettered delight that made Hawkins an immediate success when he broke in with the old Fletcher Henderson band in 1923. A St. Joseph (Mo.) boy, Hawkins was only 19; he had been playing the sax since he was...