Word: apocalypticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That might not be a bad idea, says Carlin Meyer, a professor at New York Law School whose Georgetown essay takes a far less apocalyptic view than MacKinnon's. She argues that if you don't like the images of sex the pornographers offer, the appropriate response is not to...
Since the crowd knows him of old, Koernke does not run through his standard talk: the universal-conspiracy theory featuring the U.N.; the Rockefellers; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; Bill and Hillary Clinton and others. He dispenses with apocalyptic visions: the hundreds of thousands of foreign troops on...
Apocalyptic prophets are figures of fun because they're always wrong. Armageddon fails to arrive when they say it will. In Shoko Asahara's case, however, the prophet apparently made plans to ensure that his predictions would come true. They almost did.
The apocalyptic air of the days following the Bust is easy to recall, but hard to describe. Red fists and quotations from Mao, Che and more obscure revolutionaries blossomed everywhere--on banners, posters and T-shirts.
It was a hideous prospect--that someone inside the CIA was betraying the agency's operations to the KGB. Faced with a disaster of such apocalyptic proportions, the agency might have been expected to turn Langley upside down. To pull out all the stops. To launch a major investigation. It...