Word: extinctionism
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But the Bulletin's biggest problem was the morning Inquirer. Acquired by the Knight-Ridder chain in 1970, the Inquirer was for several years after that on the verge of extinction. At its low point in 1975 the paper lost millions as circulation dipped to 401,000. Had the...
Perpetuation of committees originally slated for extinction may tax the capacity of Harvard's small group of student politicians. while at the same time diverting attention from plans for a wholly revered scheme of government students and administrators said.
Why is it so quiet here? No truism is repeated more often than the assertion "somehow we'll muddle through, "a proposition shored up with this bit of evidence: "We always have. "True enough, in the sense that the world is still here. (It is somewhat easier to muddle through...
The first order of business was to save the nation's banks. The largely unregulated banking system, which Democratic Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California said "does credit to a collection of imbeciles," was on the brink of total extinction. During the last week of the Hoover regime, $250...
"The Snark is a poem about being and nonbeing, an existential poem, a poem of existential agony. The Bellman's map is the map that charts the course of humanity; blank because we possess no information about where we are or whither we drift. The Snark is, in Paul...