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CHRYSLER CORP.: 1,201,195 649,200 Plymouth 647,352 313,200 (Valiant) - (127,900) Dodge 284,323 248,900 Chrysler (incl. Imperial) 156,458 132,100 DeSoto 118,062 Extinct...
...Philosophizing Wolf." Though he is one of the world's most eminent logicians, Bertie Russell has achieved ever wider cold war fame as one of its most illogical eminences. A wispy, white-maned aristocrat who, like a fictional intellectual once described by Novelist Aldous Huxley, resembles "an extinct saurian." Russell is a brooding, old-fashioned agnostic who for most of his life has been torn between his view that the human race is irredeemably wicked and his conviction that he can save it. At one time he was so critical of Communism that Soviet propaganda labeled him "a philosophizing...
...cultural distinctiveness. Professor O'Neill explains that there is a tendency for every small country to have its individualism obliterated by the influence of more powerful countries around it and that Ireland is in danger of becoming completely Anglicized. If this happens, the Gaelic language will be virtually extinct. This will mean, among other things, the loss in the original Gaelic to the general reading public of all of Ireland's ancient literature, the oldest north of the Alps. The Irish do not want to bring an end to that literature: they want to preserve it and the tradition...
...domain of science fictioneers. The digger merely seemed to exercise his imagination in reverse. Instead of forecasting the farout future, he re-created the long-lost past. From a few hunks of bones he built dinosaurs. In the ashes of ancient camp fires he saw the life story of extinct societies. He re-created primitive artifacts from the flimsiest shards. Today, says...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica deals cursorily with the Neanderthals, merely giving their physical characteristics (thickset physiques, sloping foreheads, receding chins) and observing that they were an aberrant strain, extinct 50,000 years ago. With the skill of an artist (and not, as is often the case in attempts of this kind, a taxidermist), Golding re-creates the Neanderthals and the dawn mist in which they lived. To the eye they are stubby, smallish, powerful near apes, covered with reddish fur. But they are dimly intelligent, although their minds do not work like those of Homo sapiens. In addition to the simple tools...