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"Until I read Lysenko's speech," he says, with a nod to the party, "I had not recognized the idealistic character of Mendel's formulation of his results." Lysenko, he argues, opened Haldane's eyes to a new refinement of the truth: "What is inherited is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Problem of Loyalties | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

During the last year, Russia's ex post facto craving to lead the world in discoveries and inventions has reached the proportions of a national mania. Not content with claiming the airplane, telegraph, radio and electric light as Russian inventions, Soviet propagandists have been staking out their claims in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Congratulations | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

It appears that a civilization, like any other living thing in evolution, retains the shrunken vestiges of once-vital organs which no longer serve much real purpose, and only cause trouble if they try to. Take for example, in 20th Century U.S. civilization, the father of a bride. Take specifically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ordeal of Mr. Banks | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Graduate Bowdoin prizes went to Henri Dorra 1G, for his "The Power of Line: Space and Emotion in the Works of the "Thanatos' Painter in Relation to the Evolution of Greek Drawing"; and to Eric P. Hamp 2G for "The Layman Looks at Language." Each receives $300.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowdoin Awards Go to 5 Students | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

In this first novel Sartre has attempted to present his philosophy in the form of literature tracing the mental states of a young man during his daily life and showing the slow evolution of all facets of Existentialism in his mind. This develop for expressing himself falls however because of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

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