John Gunther's phenomenal success as a writer reflects the thirst of Americans for knowledge about other countries after World War II. Inside Europe Today (1962) for instance relates a story Krushchev told about cats in his boyhood. When a cat was found in the pigeons' loft, the cat was grabbed by the tail and banged against the wall. I don't doubt this was the only way poor people could protect their birds. Gunther was born on August 30, 1901.
Onora Sylvia O'Neill (August 23, 1941) is a British thinker. She studied at Oxford and received a doctorate from Harvard. After a noted career, in 1992, she accepted the post of Principal of N ewnham College, Cambridge, and since 2006 she has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Her 1997 paper, "Environmental Values, Anthroporphism, and Speciesism" contains a timely argument in which Dr. O'Neill, (she prefers that title to the "Baroness" to which her elevation to the peerage allows) points out inadequacies in the use of the term speciesism to argue against according humans more ethical rights than aspects of the non human world. A viewpoint that puts " a person torturing a cat is on a par with a cat torturing a bird," is not one she finds supportable. The link is to a downloadable version of this paper. We have this picture of Onora O'Neill, in 2002, at Newnham College: We meet in the Principal's lodge at Ne
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