Word: extinctionism
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Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein. Jewish family situation comedies come to Broadway more often than the swallows go back to Capistrano. Separating the dramatic merits and demerits of a Seidman and Son from a Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling is a lot like fingerprinting a Siamese twin. If Enter...
The word "servant" dangles these days on the cliff of obsolescence; housewives have "help" when they have it at all, and are diplomatic about giving orders (not "Clean up the living room," according to one domestic counselor, but "Let's clean up the living room"). One of the most...
The oceanographers point out that the discoasters and their associates had thrived for many millions of years in the warm, unchanging oceans before the Pleistocene. The narrow band of sediment in which their extinction is recorded, represents a period of less than 6,000 years, and in this short time...
Piggyback by Sea. Some shipowners argue pessimistically that nothing can save the coastwise fleet from extinction; others, insisting that it must be saved for reasons of national defense, advocate direct Government subsidies. But more than half the U.S. ships in overseas trade are already on subsidy to the tune of...
Polemicist Philip Wylie has found a subject more forbidding than Mom. It is the possibility of human extinction by nuclear warfare. Triumph is his second novel dedicated to his new cause. In Tomorrow (TIME, Jan. 18, 1954) 20 million Americans were wiped out. Thanks to the progress of science since...