Word: extinctionism
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Sometimes it seems that the right books never get burnt. But the world has its quota of idiotic and vicious people just as it has its supplies of books that are vicious, trashy and witless. Books can eventually be as mortal as people -- the acids in the paper eat them...
Three years ago, the national headquarters of Zeta Psi--a small fraternity with chapters at Tufts and MIT--decided to reestablish a Harvard chapter and recruited students who are now seniors. But efforts were not kept up, and it wasn't until the group faced extinction that the national organization...
Now the contras are bereft of American aid, and may be threatened with extinction as a fighting force, eliminating what may be the only U.S. leverage for keeping the Sandinistas honest. Yet the Administration's cries of alarm have been met with widespread skepticism. Once again the President fudged his...
The eternal second banana, the man thought too timid to sculpt his own political persona, the patrician who ran a pallid third in last month's Iowa caucuses and staggered into New Hampshire facing extinction, the bland campaigner who ended one debate by apologizing for his lack of eloquence -- this...
Calling the clubs "dinosaurs whose extinction is at hand," Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz says that very few universities have had as shameful a role as Harvard. He called on the faculty to stop attending club events and says he hopes the clubs will become coeducational on their own.