Word: extinctionism
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In large measure, he has succeeded. When he took over in 1974, the deficit was $500,000 and rapidly mounting, threatening the troupe with eventual extinction; last season, despite a budget of $63 million, the Met had a $100,000 surplus.* "We have to raise an enormous amount of money...
"At first I was unsure about taking the job, especially when I found out I would only have six weeks to film it." Young recalls "But it was too good an opportunity to refuse" Young spent the summer after his sophomore year in Brazil working on the project while he...
Artists of every generation have had to deal with the fear that theirs is the last to walk the earth. There days, fear of extinction seems increasingly rational. It's no accident that much of contemporary writing is obsessed with survival, and poetry is increasingly morbid. Women poets in particular...
The Gators Snap Back. By the 1950s, alligator hunting had become so widespread in the swamps of the Southland that the great reptiles seemed headed for oblivion. Now, after years of federal protection, they are making a ferocious comeback. In Florida, fish and game officials get frequent calls from frightened...
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-ROTC, which has kept a low profile at Yale in recent years. slipped into extinction recently with the resignation of its last participant. Matt Hayes, a sophomore, the Yale Daily News reported last week