Word: extinctionism
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At 51, Olitski is clearly still exploring the ideas with which he has had such success so far, and his work promises further advances in a form -- the easel painting -- which since the century began has continually been being saved from the edge of apparent extinction.
By any standard, the Arabs seem hopelessly divided, ranging from the reactionary monarchy of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal to the quasi-Maoist regime of South Yemen. The extent of their differences can also be measured by their varying attitudes toward Israel. The military dictatorships of Libya and Iraq...
But as the actual wilderness disappears, the fascination with wildness seems to grow stronger. The dream of a crew-cut lawn has now grown into a yearning for shaggy acres and a pileated woodpecker of one's own. People may even be having hallucinations about the wilds. In his...
FOR most of its first two years, Amtrak, the quasi-public corporation created to preserve U.S. railroad passenger service, seemed to be highballing down the final stretch of track toward extinction. Amtrak began operations on May 1, 1971, by discontinuing almost half the nation's rail passenger service; as...
Jeffrey L. Grossman, the president of the month-old organization, said yesterday that the purpose of the committee is to "save the space program from extinction by taking a new approach." Grossman, a third-year graduate student, called the present U.S. space program badly mismanaged and proposed a series of...