Word: apocalypticism
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ASHARP SENSE of betrayal brought Hemingway to write so cynically of his compatriot expatriot Eliot shortly after the publication of The Waste Land in 1922. But like Hemingway, young American writers in Europe and at home were stunned by the reactionary sentiments being voiced by this pioneer poet--a man...
Ever since 1947 when it was founded by conscience-stricken scientists who had helped create the atomic bomb, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has recorded the imminence of a nuclear holocaust with a "doomsday clock" on its cover. Two years ago, after the U.S. and U.S.S.R. signed their first...
A multicolored map of the U.S. appears on the television screen and slowly begins to burn from the center. As the flame widens, voice-over narration accompanies a dramatic juxtaposition of images and objects to conjure up for the viewer a reckless driver, an unconcerned citizen littering a street, a...
According to the Club of Rome's highly pessimistic and widely quoted report, The Limits to Growth, mankind faces worldwide famine, pollution and fuel shortages within the next century. More recently, less apocalyptic prophets like Economist Robert Heilbroner have taken a dim view of man's future. To...
The world is probably about evenly divided between delayers and do-it-nowers. There are those who prepare their income taxes in February, prepay mortgages and serve precisely planned dinners at an ungodly 6:30 p.m. The other half dine happily on leftovers at 9 or 10, misplace bills and...