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William Alexander Percy was one of those consummate, now long-extinct Southern Gentlemen--he was a poet, a plantation owner, a lawyer and a leading citizen of Greenville, Mississippi. And by the time he wrote his autobiography, Lanterns on the Levee, in 1941, he was something of a living anachronism, baffled and bewildered by the modern world...
...settled, seems to have committed an error of carelessness, not conspiracy, with no tangible harmful effects other than those produced by the shrill invectives of the "reporters." More depressing than the defamation which will make those few professors who actually run review sessions hesitate before continuing the almost extinct practice of answering questions from students has been a loss of your credibility attendant to these "news" articles heavy with innuendo and with a manifest slanting of data that won't bear the burden of The Crimson's interpretations...
...EVEN in the United States, the source for much of the world's oppression, the desire for justice is not extinct. George McGovern went through a cycle in the 1972 presidential campaign; first ridiculed, then respected, the admiration turned to contempt again after he was written off as a hopeless loser. But for me, McGovern's finest moments came in those last few weeks of the campaign. He tried to talk about Watergate but I sensed that his heart was not really in it. As he frantically flew around the country in those last days he talked about Vietnam...
Forty years on, his verses were full of more benign reflections upon all sorts of things, including his own youthful works: "The class whose vices/ he pilloried was his own,/ now extinct, except/ for long survivors like him/ who remember its virtues...
Durrell is horrified by this irony and notes that the last passenger pigeon on earth died in 1914−in a zoo. He has chosen the extinct dodo as SAFE'S emblem, and sports a button reading "Dodo Power," in the hope of dramatizing the urgency of the situation: the flightless bird was extinct only 186 years after Europeans landed on its home island of Mauritius. "The dodo was part of a delicate spider web that connects us all," says Durrell. "Every time you muck about with that web, it sends tremors all the way through...