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...other species spent their lives pacing behind bars. Zoos might also have been predators of a sort, since they sought rare animals and thus often contributed to the depletion of some species. Now this image is changing. Thanks to the environmentalist concern over vanishing wildlife, many zoos have become latter-day Noah's arks, where rare wild animals are protected and bred against the day they may vanish from their native lands...
...Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1890. Today, the Mormon Church excommunicates any of its members who still dare live by what is rather cryptically called "the principle...
...Funny and Cruel. Latter-day readers with almost Proust-like patience have even counted the number of images contained in Remembrance of Things Past -4,578. The Master himself has turned into a series of literary images, perhaps at the expense of his own work. There is le petit Marcel in his fur-lined greatcoat, posed like a sad Charlie Chaplin. Or running from salon to salon: the funniest and crudest young man in any room. Or crouched motionless before a rose, as if he could devour it and the whole world just by looking. Finally attention is drawn...
...Sacco and Vanzetti, the Palmer raids, the Wobblies, and the Haymarket trial of 1887. There is also the ambiguous case of the Utah Mormons, who were persecuted in the late 19th century for the "crime" of practicing polygamy, then a canon of their faith. In a certain sense, those Latter-day Saints arrested for refusing to divorce their several wives could be regarded as "political" prisoners...
...Boni & Liveright; in 1925 he borrowed from a wealthy uncle on Wall Street to buy the Modern Library from that failing firm for $200,000, later used its reprint profits to form a new company that would publish books at random, hence the name Random House. Despite his latter-day public reputation as syndicated humorist and smirking jokester of TV's What's My Line?, Cerf the publisher had a shrewd eye for quality: Random House, now a subsidiary of RCA, helped break America's obscenity barrier by printing James Joyce's Ulysses in 1934, created...