Two HopesIn the era of Napoleon and Wellington, after the pounding of siege guns, a "forlorn hope" was the group of men who charged up the rubble and into a breech. It was so called because the chances that those who volunteered for this task would survive were slim indeed. I was thinking about these men, and idly watching the professor in front of me clean his ear with the end of his spectacles, when I heard someone mention Spenser Weart and O.B. Toon; thus I was semi-alert when Project Ploughshare came up. P.P. was a proposal to blast harbors in Alaska's coastline, using thermonuclear bombs. People from a place called Point Hope opposed the project. I kid you not.
http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=92-P13-00041#feature2 David Ritchie, Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html