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...soft klutz who never exercised anything but his ego, Selznick was the son of one of the industry's pioneer pirates, a high roller who was quickly rolled over by better organized competitors. Thomson hints at a streak of madness in the Selznick line (one brother, Myron, a legendary Hollywood agent, died of alcoholism; another was institutionalized for many years). But in David's case it looked at first like genius. He was head of production at RKO at 30, had his own unit at MGM a year later, his own company four years after that. And he oversaw some...
Wali named the store Man from Atlantis after a long-ago television series. The astronaut outside the store represents the "science fiction pioneer of the future...
...world is coming to an end. Again. Edward O. Wilson, a pioneer of sociobiology and professor of entomology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, lists five earth-shattering events in the past half-billion years. The latest may have been a one-two punch. A meteorite six miles wide struck the Caribbean region 66 million years ago and set off intercontinental volcanic eruptions. The smoke and dust changed the global climate, killing countless plant and animal species...
...virtues of the books, surprisingly, is a keen sense of how men and women lived in early American society, or on its margins. The Pioneers describes the growing pains of a frontier town in upstate New York in the 1790s, in which religious sects jockey for advantage and the law turns bully. The Prairie depicts a pioneer clan named Bush, whose family values include squatting and kidnapping. The new nation may have been led by paragons like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson; Cooper's characters were the nation they led. It is our first group self-portrait...
...heralded as a pioneer in the formulation of mathematical and cybernetic approaches to the study of politics. The academic was one of the first scholars to assemble data on population movements, language asimilation, and the flow of such international transactions as trade and mail...