Word: apocalypticism
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A secretive and apocalyptic sect shuns a former leader
Kandinsky spent his whole life waiting for this Theosophical heaven-on-earth and trying to work out its art language, in which colors would have the semantic exactness of words, and sounds the precision of things. The prospect of its imminent arrival was one of his favorite subjects as a...
ROOSEVELT ASKS DICTATOR'S ROLE cried the headline next day in Hearst's New York Sunday Mirror. With unemployment still climbing and much of the banking system shut down, there was indeed a widespread sense that the American political system was getting its last chance. "The biggest and...
Thomas Berger's novel was a suburban Walpurgisnacht, in which a sedentary couple are driven beyond distraction by the bizarre boorishness of the folks next door. For this to work in the movies it must be played either with the film equivalent of Berger's fastidious prose-Ordinary...
Not all of Tichy's adventures are so apocalyptic. He attracts mad scientists, members of "the gray brotherhood of obsession," who confide their wild schemes to him. One visitor unveils a working time machine; unfortunately, he commits involuntary suicide when he projects himself forward to see how his invention...