Word: apocalypticism
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That apocalyptic allegory is the plot of Der Dra-Dra, the latest work of one of Communism's most controversial artists. Wolf Biermann, 34, a sad-faced East Berlin balladeer, is the spiritual heir of Bertolt Brecht, who spent his last years in the city. But while Brecht directed...
For a time, a backlash developed among Americans who viewed the environment as a digression from pressing concerns like poverty, racism and the war. They noted that ecologists, with their holistic view of nature, proclaimed dangers on every front but failed to set clear priorities for action. Ghetto blacks were...
It is not necessary to share this apocalyptic decline-and-fall theory to recognize many interrelated dangers to both society and family. Each of the nation's forces of change and conflict meet within the family. The "counterculture" of the young, the effects of the war, economic stresses and the...
In the U.S. these days, it would be hard to find anybody-politician, economist or ordinary citizen-who is unaware of the economic palpitations afflicting the nation. Indeed, as this week's cover story discusses in detail, the difficulties the U.S. is experiencing are shared by developed nations around...
"When I was writing my books," Andrei Amalric said last February, "I realized I was risking prison." Risk became reality last week. In Sverdlovsk, 850 miles from Amalric's home in Moscow and well out of bounds to nosy Western correspondents, the Russian social critic, 32, was sentenced to...