Word: extinctionism
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All the members of the U.S. Senate refer to one another as gentlemen. But, what with the industrial revolution, the westering course of empire and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, the Senate has seen the virtual extinction of gentlemen in the 19th-century sense of the word. Most of...
Frustrations & Freedoms. To the 70-odd U.S. and British reporters waiting to meet them in Hong Kong, the Laborites were considerably less gracious. "Any statement on your tour?" one of the newsmen asked Attlee, but before the former Prime Minister could even remove his pipe, Morgan Phillips, Labor Secretary and...
Dreams Like Wine. Tanguy's reputation is based on the stubbornly continuing popularity of surrealism, on the fact that most critics tend to praise anything they do not understand?and, most of all, on skill. It may be even harder to picture things the world never saw than to picture...
Last week British civil servants in the prosperous Gold Coast presided over their own eventual extinction. Nearly a million lively, well-behaved but largely illiterate Africans voted for their first all-African government (the three ex-officio British Cabinet ministers will surrender their portfolios). The results surprised no one.
The color maps on the following four pages show the world's contemporary empires, at their peak and at their present ebb. Imperialism itself is in retreat: out of step with the 20th century, it is condemned to anachronism by the urgent drive of black man and yellow man...