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...Fourth of July speech today is seldom the shapely purple cloud of bombast that it once was. That style is nearly extinct. The old eagle-screaming rhapsody, the Everlasting Yea, survives mostly in wistful, or merely empty, references to Jefferson, in Smithsonian pageants or in the elegiac drone of a speaker recalling something that happened a long, long time ago, almost in another country...
...believe that I belong to an extinct species--the Radcliffe Ph.D.," Pian said last night, adding "I'm very proud of that...
...This separatism is exactly that which we need to overcome if we're going to survive in this world," he said. "We're making extinct 2000 species of animals and plants per year. What if one of those species is mankind?" he added...
...island is dominated by The Hills and The Quill, volcanic cones, now extinct. Climbing to the peak of The Quill (1,800 ft.) with a verdant rain forest in its crater is a not too strenuous 80-min. hike. An old Dutch command post, Fort Oranjestad, built on French foundations in 1636, is a neat little 16-cannon salute to colonial glories. This and several other of the island's 17 original forts are on a walking tour laid out by Statia's energetic historical foundation. One of the best beaches is on Tumble Down Dick Bay, apparently...
...fierce, feared Caribs are a virtually extinct race. A small colony of the Indians, now mixed with other bloods, survives on Dominica. The Caribs gave their name to the Caribbees, as the Elizabethans called the Caribbean, which thus should properly be pronounced Cari...