Word: extinctionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 1918 the Jicarilla Apaches of northern New Mexico seemed destined for extinction. A once proud and unruly people that were among the last to be "pacified" by the white man, they had sunk into a hopeless depression. They watched apathetically while opportunists from outside exploited their land, were so...
In fact, the only tragedy in Duchin's life was death, a subject that Hollywood ordinarily does not like to contemplate with seriousness. Duchin's bride died in childbirth, and Eddy had scarcely recovered from the shock when he learned that he was afflicted with leukemia. The film...
The indio-cowboys have a fantastic and savage leader in Captain Galdino Ferreira, a sort of jungle-boy Long John Silver, who can do without money, but not without violence. So the Cangaceiros have plenty of violence, most of it superfluous and therefore especially appealing. The good folk have a...
-All traffic in bird-of-paradise plumes has been internationally banned since 1924, to prevent the extinction of the birds. Learning that Nepal badly needed to replace its worn-out royal plumes, the U.S. shipped over a package of 100 plumes that had been stored in New York City'...
Hoffa's proposed alliance with the debt-ridden I.L.A. outraged A.F.L.-C.I.O. brass, who recognized it for what it was: a deadly threat to the three-year-old drive to clean up the New York waterfront. In 1953 the A.F.L. expelled the I.L.A. for flagrant and persistent corruption, and...