Word: extinct
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...voice, an attitude which I'm afraid has become far too widespread lately, swooning at the mention of his name and fainting at the sound of his voice is chic nowadays. Quite frankly, he's a second rate tenor in an era when first rate tenors seem to be extinct...
What a classic your article the "Dammed Lousewort" [April 11] was! Imagine the gall of this preposterous plant to halt the construction of a "$668 million hydroelectric project" like the Dickey-Lincoln Dam in Maine. For heaven's sake, the species was thought extinct anyway-let's make it official and drown it under a few billion gallons of water. All this endangered-species-list bit is getting boring...
Laqueur, a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., compares modern terrorism with bygone atrocities. He coolly concludes that urban guerrilla movements, such as the extinct Tupamaros of Uruguay, may have seen their day. The reason, as Laqueur dryly notes, is that the decline of liberal democracy in many parts of the world makes it harder to be a terrorist. The Tupamaros, for example, began not under the heel of a dictator but in one of Latin America's most democratic nations. The membership, much of it privileged youth, successfully undermined the authority...
...Swanberg, Norman Thomas was "that bird many people now consider all but extinct, an honest politician." Thomas refused to compromise his firm democratic, egalitarian, and civil libertarian ideals, even when his stands alienated many of his supporters. A case in point was his opposition to U.S. involvement in World War II on the grounds that it would result in repression and fascism at home and the shoring up of imperialist regimes (Britain and France) abroad. Even those of his supporters who disagreed with his position in this case--and in others in which he was more prescient--could not help...
...Chicago, patronage means thousands of city, county and even state jobs. Even after progressive reforms, civil service and an era of investigative reporting, patronage in its crudest form still exists. It is not, as optimists might have it, an extinct product of the "old politics...