Word: extinctionism
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In a passage of virtuoso understatement, Miss Dillard meticulously records the death of a small frog sucked dry by a giant water bug, and with eerie calm reports an afternoon she spent sitting beside a copperhead. "Evolution loves death more than it loves you and me," she quietly concludes. And...
A "biography, of sorts," it calls itself. The subtitle is not merely a corny echo of Eliot's own Notes Towards the Definition of Culture but "an acknowledgement, like his, that this will not be the last word on the subject." It's just as well. Along with every other...
The Harvard junior varsity soccer program is quickly nearing extinction.
HARVEY COX'S Seduction of the Spirit is properly not a book at all but a manifesto and a scattering of blueprints. Its thrust: Marx was only half-right. Religion is not always and everywhere or merely an opiate of the masses. Though it often serves as a "sedative administered...
Private Doubts. In part, the experience of Viet Nam has made many Americans more cautious about getting involved in wars in any part of the globe, U.C.L.A. Historian Peter von Sivers, 32, senses that "in the aftermath of Viet Nam, there is a feeling that a solution must be imposed...