This was safe enough – the shape didn’t move, at least – but it could do terrible thing to, let us say, the gyroscope of the soul.
The insomnia factory was open for the day, heading toward peak production.
Many wives of fighter pilots would end up looking on helplessly as their husbands grew more and more distant, a fact they would acknowledge in what were meant as lighthearted remarks, such as: “I’m only his mistress – he’s married to an airplane.” Often she would be overstating their intimacy; the actual mistress would be someone she didn’t know about.
Huxley became such an ardent Darwinist not because he believed in Darwin’s theory of natural selection – he never did – but because Darwin was obviously an atheist, just as he was. No.
Subscribing to Darwinism showed that one was part of a bright, enlightened minority who shone far above the mooing herd down below. There.
The theory and the atheistic bias that came with it spread quickly to Germany, Italy, Spain, and to self-professed intellectual elites in the United States, even.
As Sigmund Freud would put it thirty-five years later in similar circumstances, “Many enemies, much honor.” Darwin.
The Science of Language will yet enable us to withstand the extreme theories of evolutionists and to draw a hard and fast line between man and brute.
The power of the human brain was so far beyond the boundaries of natural selection that the term became meaningless in explaining the origins of man.
How the stories circulated on every campus! If you weren’t making $250,000 a year within five years, than you were either grossly stupid or grossly lazy. That was the word. By age 30, $500,000–and that sum had the taint of the mediocre. By age forty you were either making a million a year or you were timid and incompetent. Make it now! That motto burned in every heart, like myocarditis.
Only such a power, “a new power of definite character,” can account for “ever-advancing” man.53 Whatever that power is, it is infinitely more important than mere natural selection.
Cassady is a monologuist, only he doesn’t seem to care whether anyone is listening or not. He just goes off on the monologue, by himself if necessary, although anyone is welcome aboard. He will answer all questions, although not exactly in that order, because we can’t stop here, next rest area 40 miles, you understand, spinning off memories, metaphors, literary, Oriental, hip allusions, all punctuated by the unlikely expression, ’you understand -.
Mountain Girl tries to concentrate, but the words swim like great waves of... The words swim by and she hears the sound but it is like her cerebral cortex is tuned out to the content of it. Her mind keeps rolling and spinning over another set of data, always the same. Like – the eternal desperate calculation. In short, Mountain Girl is pregnant.
By the time he reached the front door, the truth had hit him. Through stupidity, incompetence, and funk he had now managed to lose his one last hope. Oh, Master of the Universe.
To say that animals evolved into man is like saying that Carrara marble evolved in to Michelangelo’s David. Speech.
Everyone is picking up on the most minute incidents as if they are metaphors for life itself. Everybody’s life becomes more fabulous, every minute, than the most fabulous book.
John McCormack’s rising in the House of Representatives to say that the United States faced “national extinction” if she did not overtake the Soviet Union in the.
The fact was that theories – Greenberg’s – about Pollock – were beginning to affect Pollock. Greenberg hadn’t created Pollock’s reputation, but he was its curator, custodian, brass polisher, and repairman, and he was terrific at it.
In this respect, Darwinism was typical of the more primitive cosmogonies. They avoided the question of how the world developed ex nihilo. Darwin.
What makes you think you can come before the bench waving the banner of community pressure? The law is not a creature of the few or of the many.