Word: extinctionism
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Many notables from many countries have said much, most of it hackneyed, on first seeing the Berlin Wall. Author John Steinbeck, 61, ending a two-month tour behind the Iron Curtain, chose his words carefully: "One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with...
The heart of Fitzgerald's dilemma in the world was that he understood that somehow his talent was involved with his neurosis. He did not "believe in psychoanalysis"; he was afraid that, if "cured," it would cost him his gift. There is tragic sincerity in his letter to John...
Smashed Wedgwood. Most new nations of Southeast Asia have enough trouble already with Chinese minorities and are dead-set against bringing in more refugees from the mainland. Hastening their extinction is the fact that many of the finer amahs are Cantonese women who traditionally belong to kongsis, or sisterhoods, that...
De Valera, near-blind and doggedly indifferent to the country's worsening economic plight, was persuaded by his own Fianna Fail Party to step aside for Lemass and run for the presidency. His successor, after 19 years as Minister of Commerce and Industry, was passionately convinced that Ireland'...
No, the College is not collapsing: the $82 million Program for Harvard College has assured its financial security; the House system since 1930 has guaranteed its residential integrity; the prestige of the institution has lately enabled it to choose its students from among some of the most highly qualified applicants...