Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cardinal Villot's lax concern about the population explosion [Feb. 1] is the reflection of the most serious shortcoming of the Judeo-Christian belief, namely that it is legitimate for humans to ruthlessly exploit the animal and plant kingdoms presumably to increase the glory of the Lord. What makes Cardinal Villot and his followers think that a cheetah or a dolphin or a sequoia is less of a glory of God than the products of overpopulation: wars, crimes, drug addiction? Of what avail is freedom if there is no clear water, clean air, forests and no wildlife? Where then...
...Petersburg, Florida, living what he called "a kind of monastic life that has enabled me to write as much as I did." Shortly before his death he told a friend, "The Communists jumped on my movement and turned it into a Beat insurrection. They wanted a youth movement to exploit." He had recently sold an article to a Sunday newspaper magazine-supplement titled "After Me the Deluge." A month before he died he told an interviewer. "I'm not a beatnik, I'm a Catholic." He then pointed out a portrait of Pope Paul: "You know who painted that...
...trouble is that penology (from the Latin poena, meaning penalty) is still an infant art given to fads and guesswork, like the 1920s reformers who yanked tens of thousands of teeth from hapless inmates on the theory that bad teeth induced criminality. Even now, penology has not begun to exploit the findings of behavioral scientists who believe that criminal behavior is learned, and can be unlearned with the proper scientific methods...
...spot the source of pollutants like oil, mercury and lead. It would also monitor oxygen levels in the seas and "red tides," the abnormal growth of phytoplankton that can choke out other forms of marine life. Obviously, such a system will need the political support of nations that now exploit and degrade the seas...
Owls by John Sparks and Tony Soper. 206 pages. Taplinger. $5.95. Chaucer saw them as messengers of death, Ophelia evoked them when going mad, potato chip ads exploit them, fairy tales celebrate their imagined wisdom. This compact book explores the history, habits and life-styles of owls (there are 133 kinds) in straitlaced prose, enhanced by excellent photos and drawings by Naturalist Robert Gillmor. For bird watchers who give a hoot...