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...more species: One more might not matter, but, on the other hand, it might lead to disaster. This presumption seems ludicrous since the world has been losing species for millions of years. Human beings may have increased the pace of species elimination, yet with a few million still extant, the disappearance of more each century should hardly strain the ecosystem...
...model should have survived and be in so flourishing a condition as to be able to mount a royal wedding with all the panache of olden times. It often seems as though our British monarchy, along with our secret intelligence service, represents the only appurtenance of national greatness still extant. And even the intelligence network, it must be admitted, has of late been showing unmistakable signs of decomposition as the moles and countermoles surface and then disappear...
Realism, from its outset, was a didactic art, created in the still extant belief that painting was one of the prime channels of social discourse...
...joke is funny an allusion to a certain social subset extant on the Harvard campus, known for their continental accents, upraised and narrow jacket collars, predilection for Neosynepherine-substitute, and tendency to gather at a seedy late-night luncheonette near Adams House. And the joke--and especially the reaction to it--reveals several truths about the Kroks and their appeal...
...Harvard is not reflected in the faculty themselves so much as in the way they are used. Octavio Paz, who must surely rank as one of the handful of great living poets, was teaching a course in Spanish to a half dozen students. Fitzgerald, one of the few extant experts on epic poetry, taught one student Homer and Dante. Paul Rotterdam, one of the few significant contemporary painters who even dain teach, had eight students in his course: of which perhaps two were seriously considering careers as painters. These are just a few examples from my years at Harvard. They...