Word: extinctionism
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Out of this handful of types comes a quietly amusing little morality play, built on such domestic difficulties as Jack's disobeying his father, Bobby's cutting his wrist, Bonnie's almost getting smashed in an automobile wreck. During the picture's two-day action the...
Close to extinction except in a Zululand preserve and along the Upper Nile is the white (actually grey) rhinoceros. Only elephants are bigger than this creature. As long as 15 ft., very fast, agile and ferocious when angry, its charge is usually impotent because of its poor eyesight. Connoisseurs call...
Upholding the negative side of the question, the Crimson team charged that the adoption of such an amendment would bring about an unwarranted revolutionary change in the economic and political order of the country. Warning that such a step would arm Congress with dangerous prerogatives, they declared that the inevitable...
Both Over African Jungles and Speak to the Earth are frivolous works compared with Africa Dances. Geoffrey Gorer, 30-year-old English writer, traveled from Dakar through French West Africa to Dahomey and the Gold Coast, with Feral Benga, famed Parisian Negro dancer, who wanted to stage a Negro ballet...
3. The winning of the West, the multiplication of colleges, the series of Anti-Classical revivals in art and architecture--all phases of turbid, radical progress spiced with cultural glance over the shoulder at values inevitably doomed to extinction.