Word: apocalypticism
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Sweeney and his landlady are at bottom leftist abstractions. He is the innocent man turned criminal by a wicked power structure; exiled by a corrupt judge who lusted after his wife, he returns vowing to show nobody any more mercy than he received. Mrs. Lovett is a singing, dancing and...
TIN MACHINE: TIN MACHINE (EMI). It's David Bowie, lying low with a new band that he helped create and whose rough edges he hones to a good cutting edge. Lots of fever-blister guitar work and apocalyptic Bowie lyrics. Crack City ought to be a sci-fi hallucination, but...
Harvard took off the kid gloves during this year's overseers race after HRAAA nominated South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu. Despite apocalyptic predictions by some Harvard officials and alumni, Tutu was elected to the Board and became its fourth HRAAA member.
At the Law School, Clark, a corporate law scholar known for his outspoken criticism of the school's left-wing faculty, was greeted with almost apocalyptic predictions for his deanship. One professor, who is sympathetic to Critical Legal Studies, the radical school of legal thought Clark has repeatedly criticized, even...
Sound farfetched? Perhaps. But normally unflappable Bostonians consider this apocalyptic vision a real possibility, and it has the city in an uproar. In two years construction is scheduled to begin on the $4.4 billion Central Artery project, the rebuilding of a highway that runs through the heart of downtown Boston...