Word: apocalypticism
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Paintings of contemporary events were also dense with allegorical meaning. Among these was Turner's Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 1835 (see color page). This apocalyptic moment, for so it seemed to Londoners already made nervous by Chartist labor agitation, happened one October night in 1834...
ENDING OUR MARRIAGES makes us reborn, Bergman seems to say, and he may be edging near the truth. The marriage he shows came from a social base where everything worked against it, and the new lives of the reawakened partners seem no more fulfilling. But if Marianne and Johan have...
The food crisis today is described by some futurologists in apocalyptic terms. Some kind of black death or brown is imminent. Famine, starvation, rebellion occur; the synthesis of progress based on energy, trade, and capital is broken by new (old) resource imperialisms, expropriations and capital shortages with rising costs of...
This grim prognosis has led to apocalyptic warnings from some of the world's top food experts. "We will see increasing troubles, not declining troubles," predicts Dr. John Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. "We will see increasing famine, pestilence, the extermination of large numbers of people. Malthus has...
"What a tragic difference for individual families as well as for the collective quality of the survivors' lives." The only way to avoid turning present "catastrophic" food shortages in India and Africa into what the authors term an "apocalyptic" famine by 2010 is to tackle at once every aspect...