Word: evolutionism
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Girded like Siegfrieds, rabid Nazis had labeled evolution a British-Plutocratic-Jewish-Materialist theory. They abused it as "the theory of universal racelessness," a standing menace to Nazi racial dogma (Rasselehre). In Natur & Kultur, one Otto Muck recognized what democratic scientists had long pointed out, that "racial theory and evolutionary...
This was the doctrine which German scientists were asked to swallow. Nazi scientific papers even attacked the theory of evolution, as the Church had a generation earlier, by printing pictures of ugly ape men and demanding whether Aryans, let alone that super Aryan, Adolf Hitler, could have had such ancestors...
In Sodom by the Sea, Newsmen Pilat and Ranson narrate with raffish gusto what they call "an affectionate history" of the "island" (which by filling in its dividing ditch has long since been firmly attached to the mainland). They tell all: the evolution of the amusement parks, side shows, steeplechases...
Last week the U.S.'s biggest Drive-In cinemansion was thriving. Just west of Evanston in the richly populated suburban belt north of Chicago, this month-old bow to the U.S. citizen's affinity for all but living in his automobile was evidence of a now established evolution...
Wagner. "With Wagner we . . . reach an uncertain twilight region - part biological, part social, and part . . . esthetic. But the pattern is the same. Art has its evolution, which follows the development of races and nations, the progress of culture ultimately requiring the union of the arts in a popular synthesis of...