Word: apocalypticism
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The aging adventurer is pointed to Hong Kong, then to Southeast Asia and programmed intrigues?and unexpected sellouts. The Schoolboy's odyssey is both official and personal. As colleagues perish, as the enigmatic Ko brothers become more comprehensible, as loyalties dissolve, Jerry finds himself questioning his own motives and, finally...
Absurdist Playwright Eugène Ionesco is known for his use of logic taken to farcical extremes. But even without 20-20 apocalyptic vision, it is possible to imagine the world ending in an enormous eruption. Of all the demonstrations of nature's awesome power, few are as dramatic...
The balance of Does Anybody Give a Damn? is concerned with evidence that schools are "failing." As Hentoff points out, 23 per cent of all students in American public schools fail to graduate from high school, while 43 per cent of all elementary school children are in critical need of...
"It is a damn lie to suggest that there isn't enough competition in the oil business," charged Union Oil Chairman and President Fred Hartley in response to Carter's claim that there was not. While praising the thrust of Carter's energy alarm, General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy protested...
Journal's world outlook is apocalyptic, revivalist and born-again naive. Thus "the technology designed to provide against scarcity ultimately breeds more scarcity. What begins in fear must end in fear." Indeed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. But wait. Journal proclaims itself part of the alternative lifestyles movement, but...