In 2005, American biologist and author Jared Diamond, based on his research on past civilizations, proposed a combination of factors to explain the collapse of former societies.
While it may seem as though we drift apart, in reality we huddle ever closer, throwing the detritus of our former societies behind us.
RUTH ROBINSON, former society editor of The New York Times, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and educated in Auckland.
Story about Americans who had to leave China when the war-broke out, and interviewed in N. Y. by the former society editof of the British….
By the late 1930s, according to former society president Ralph de Toledano (Class of 1938), the organization was devoted mainly to drinking wine and listening to jazz.
Story about Americans who had to leave China when the war-broke out, and interviewed in N. Y. by the former society editof of the British North China Daily News, Rosamond Walker was born in China.
The redtops in particular have picked up on Delevingne's aristocratic family: she is the daughter of a property tycoon and former society beauty, and her older sister, Poppy, is also a model and ambassador for the British Fashion Council.
Her last movie, in 1992, was the television film "The Countess Alice," in which she played the title role, a former society beauty who is interviewed 50 years after her fame.
His mother, who married Mr. Strum when Mr. Palmer was 13, is a former society columnist for The Los Angeles Times who has written political murder mysteries with Senator Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland.
Story about Americans who had to leave China when the war-broke out, and interviewed in N. Y. by the former society editof of the British… In 1928, a large number of people living on Fifth, Park and Madison Avenues received letters from the Midgettes of Kitty Hawk, N. C. The… Reminiscent story of the men who composed "Yes!
Hotels often tie themselves in knots spinning yarns about history as they seek to convince guests that they are staying somewhere special, but Ritz-Carlton isn't overreaching by positioning Dorado Beach as a former society hot spot — "recapturing the magic and essence of that legendary Rockefeller era," as its public relations chief put it in an e-mail.
