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Futurist Marshall McLuhan, who has written books such as Understanding Media to explain that books are extinct, used the medium of his mouth at the International P.E.N. Congress in Manhattan to tell the 600 assembled novelists, poets and playwrights just where they will stand in the future. "We are about to see an age where the environment itself is arranged as a teaching machine," he lectured delphically. "The author is going to be engaged in programming the teaching machine." McLuhan unsettled the writers further with a slogan: "Artists should go to the control tower, not the ivory tower." But they...
...mandate, presided over the greatest expansion in conservation activity since Theodore Roosevelt's day. As the Great Society's custodian of natural and civic beauty, Udall has taken as his active concern everything from the water needs of thirsty Eastern cities to the fate of the nearly extinct California condor...
Smiting the wicked became a habit. During World War II, he wrote a letter warning Japanese Emperor Hirohito: "Surrender or be totally annihilated and become extinct." Three months later the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima. As Father Divine put it: "Things just don't happen. Things happen just...
...Fischer-Dieskau is less optimistic about the future of the lieder. "There is no question that contemporary music finds itself in a grave crisis," he says sadly. "As a result, there are far too few lieder being written now. For all purposes, this art form is extinct...
...largely unexplorel family records: the Bourne and Addams papers. But as the opportunities for original research decrease a complex and rather obliquely stated thesis emerges. In the late 19th century, when most of the early reformers were growing up, the American family as an instrument of repression was almost extinct, leaving the young intellectuals with no firm social structure to rebel against. Perhaps for this reason, perhaps because Jane Addams was not the daughter of an overbearing Breueresque daddy, the Freudian discovery of the inner self did not breed a characteristically European pessimism when it reached these shores, but instead...