Word: extinctionism
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Fortunately, Shakespeare's plays are fueled by more than a consummate mastery of the English tongue. They search out what Hamlet called "the motive and the cue for passion" and release characters like comets blazing across four centuries without extinction. In the universality of its human concerns and its...
The Harvard hockey team, on the verge of mathematical extinction from the ECAC playoffs even before the puck is dropped for the Beanpot, will attempt to justify its current 14th place standing in Division One when it faces the league's worst team, Princeton (0-9-3), this afternoon at...
With hockey on the verge of ECAC extinction, basketball in pursuit of a record 13-game losing streak and women's swimming wondering where all the swimmers have gone, first semester results brought tears to the eyes of players and nausea to the stomachs of fans.
Not for everyman's coffee table is The Herons of the World by James Hancock and Hugh Elliott (Harper & Row; 304 pages; $65). The authors have limited their choice of long-legged wading birds to a single family, the Ardeidae, which comprises some 61 species. The Snowy Egret graces...
The answers to these questions are less important than the acceptance of the sheer incongruity of Santayana's words sitting there amid the stench of corpses and the extinction of Jones's vision. The real question is, what sort of culture could, over a space of 50 years, harbor philosophiesas...