Word: apocalypticism
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These essays are profoundly reflective circlings, full of doubt and sanity. The question is whether, in a marketplace full of the apocalyptic saviors he warns against, Farber's quiet voice will get the hearing he deserves. Melvin Maddocks
Examine how Moynihan argued his apocalyptic hypothesis. For one, he carefully ignored the substance of the counter-culture's ideal, in part by focussing snidely on the left's most visible and fickle wing, the "children of the rich." The academic-turned-politician also evasively classified the critique of the...
Garrett has a cynical interpretation of the demonstrations and strikes of the late sixties. "I wonder how much of it was a spring-fever type of thing. There was a lot of wasted time and a lot of apocalyptic thinking when it turned out not to be an apocalypse."
FROM THE BEGINNING, the meeting of Europe and America was colored by illusions. Columbus retreated from the Orinoco delta because he thought he had found the Earthly Paradise; Coronado chased across the deserts in search of seven golden cities; Ponce de Leon died in pursuit of the Fountain of Youth...
Falling Bricks. The ignorance is understandable: the Soviet Union keeps itself as difficult to read as a Five Year Plan. Partly for that reason, the American curiosity persists, especially in the ambiguous atmosphere of Soyuz-Apollo, grain deals, Angola and the apocalyptic visions of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in exile. Also involved...