Word: apocalypticism
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Throughout the thirty years of his scientific romances and prophecies Wells was in a constant state of emotional flux. His first marriage to his cousin, Isabel, in 1893 lasted only two years. He then married his mistress, Amy Robbins, and soon asked her to "accept" his promiscuous ways with other...
Obviously, Vice President Hall does have a firm grip on his own corner of reality. "Harvard will have to cut its consumption by 30 percent to meet federal expectations." However, the easiest administrative solution should not be mistaken for the fairest. A hard examination of priorities by the entire community...
But how can one describe the Disney collective's view of fine art? Its taste, ultimately, was Walt's and his was not markedly subtle; he had no pretensions to high culture and if he had been encumbered with such longings the barnyard vitality of early Disney would...
Rejected for publication by the U.S. journal Science before Nature printed it, Boyle's paper has already stirred up a new scientific row. Meadows, refusing to change his apocalyptic vision, vigorously denies that any typographical errors crept into the published results. He adds: "Every single conclusion that we reported...
When the war of the generations was at its most virulent, apocalyptic commentators thought that it might go on forever or end in victory for one side or the other. Perhaps America is fortunate in that no public passion seems to endure very long. Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset has calculated...