Word: apocalypticism
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THIS chilling scenario is not from a leftist science-fiction film but out of the pages of a serious recent book, The Energy Crisis (Crown; $5.95), by Lawrence Rocks and Richard P. Runyon, both professors at Long Island's C.W. Post College. Unless the U.S. takes serious measures to...
The catalyst of the action, however, is David (Sami Frei), an artist who returns to Paris to pick up with Rosalie where he left off several years ago. David is a reserved and preoccupied figure, languidly handsome, and given to the terse, apocalyptic remarks with which soap opera segments end...
Wattenberg and Scammon give American liberalism much of the credit for improvements in black life. "Something did indeed happen in the 1960s: the logjam broke-politically, socially, legally, economically, even spiritually-and there is no going back." They may underrate the role of the decade's booming economy, which...
RHODES IS MORE than just another mad apocalyptic genius. There is a basic country-storyteller streak in him, and a good grounding in the blunt candor of the agrarian Midwest. His lack of urbanity is replaced by a prodigious experience: we believe that he cannot imagine people really talking any...
SO IT WAS that by 1972, The Quiet Campus had arrived, and newspapers were noting that students were studying more, and applying to medical schools and law schools, and drinking more beer, and wearing corduroys and skirts instead of blue jeans. Mr. Nixon mined the harbors of Haiphong and stepped...