Word: evolutionism
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Author-editor Bernard J. Stern will conclude the John Reed Society's series of discussions on Marxism and Modern Thought tonight with an address on "The Concept of Social Evolution Today," in Harvard Hall 1 at 8 o'clock.
Dr. Cowles believes (with most zoologists) that warm blood is a key factor in evolution. Like diesels and steam engines, animal mechanisms are more efficient at high temperatures. This is one of the chief reasons why mammals and birds, both warm-blooded, dominate the earth.
When the Oxford Press asked Bernard Shaw to name one of his works for, its World's Classics series, he chose this agile old fantasy of faith in Creative Evolution. He chipped at the famous preface, juggled the text a little, and added a postscript declaring that it is...
* But Lord Horder, a firm opponent of socialized medicine, attacked Britain's new National Health Service Act: "We had hoped that it would be through . . . evolution, rather than through the method of revolution that is now being adopted, that Government would help us to [improve medical care]."
At 55, Ernst lives in Arizona with fellow surrealist Dorothea Tanning-his fourth wife-looking at the desert to get ideas for painting the sea. Like Lewis Carroll's Father William, Ernst has a limited stock of answers for those who question his strange ways. He feels sure he...