Word: apocalypticism
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What a vision awaited visitors to the Royal Palace in Caserta, Italy. Traipsing through the gardens with Actress Isabella Rossellini, daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Director Roberto Rossellini, was a familiar white-robed figure with the distinctive bearing of Pope John Paul II. Young girls genuflected as the Pontiff passed...
IN THE FIELD of economic policy, Reagan would loose the shackles of the oil companies in an effort to lessen dependence on foreign oil. While this might prove a partially effective short-term solution, it does not bode well for the U.S. 20 years from now, when depleted supplies--no...
The generation of the 1960s came upon this side of the American character with an air of shocked discovery, with the sudden rage of people who felt that they had been lied to by the myth. In fact, they had. The American history that they had been taught did not...
The past 15 years have pounded a sense of urgent uniqueness into Americans. In fact, anyone who buys from OPEC and fails to feel some chill of reckoning down the line is a bon vivant worth spending an evening with. But Americans need to regain a longer perspective. The period...
A critic ought not reveal the various surprises in Sellars' staging of Gogol's already apocalyptic ending, but the virtues and problems of the new translation by Sellars and Sam Guckenheimer can be addressed without giving anything away. The literal rendition into English of Gogol's gnarled, misshapen and often...