Word: eurasia
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Dixon assumes the continents will continue to drift, eventually creating a world that will be far different from today's. Africa, Eurasia, Australia and North America will come together to form a giant continent with new climates and ecosystems; South America will become a huge island. Once man has succeeded in overpopulating the planet and exhausting its resources, as he now seems bent on doing, he will have assured not only his own extinction but that of the species that depend upon him for existence: domestic cattle, for example. Man's departure, concludes Dixon, will allow "evolution...
...literature, the history of Western civilization or the nature of scientific inquiry, the Core offers ten times that many classes on esoteric subjects ranging from the ridiculous ("Comedy and the Novel") to "The Sublime in America"; others, equally confined in scope, include "Nationalism, Religion and Politics in Central Eurasia," "Tuberculosis in the 19th Century," "The Development of the String Quartet," "Chivalric Romances of the Middle Ages" and "The Emancipation of the Jews...
...Nationalism, Religion, and Politics in Central Eurasia," Joseph F. Fletcher Jr. (omitted next year...
Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, college kids would no more have been without their LPs of Pianist Dave Brubeck's Jazz Goes to College, Brubeck Time* and Impressions of Eurasia than their paperbacks of Steppenwolf or The Catcher in the Rye. But five years ago Brubeck suddenly disbanded what was probably the most popular jazz quartet of the post-World War II era. He had earned his secure nook in history and was hankering after other accomplishments. For one thing, he wanted to compose serious music-and he soon turned out three major religious works, including...
...this moment, in 1984, Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially, Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. -1984, George Orwell...