Word: apocalypticism
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Under these static circumstances, the play is not the thing, or even a play. Essentially, Happy Days is a monologue by a compulsive talker. A strident school bell signals the times when Winnie must wake and sleep; in between comes the terrible recess of endurance, the "happy day" to be...
Facing up to the horrendous choice between New York City's three Democratic candidates for mayor, the Pied Piper of Harlem, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, bestowed his anxiously awaited blessing on Organization Man Arthur Levitt. "New York City," prophesied the apocalyptic Adam, "is absolutely finished if affable, personable, charming...
In 1939 Chambers also joined TIME as a book reviewer, rose steadily to the post of senior editor, directed the foreign news and books sections, and wrote numerous cover stories on divergent personalities ranging from Marian Anderson to Reinhold Niebuhr to Albert Einstein. A man who loved self-dramatization, Chambers...
The spring's run of films shot in Europe (Mein Kampf, Kanal, The Bridge) has been about as jolly as the" spring's run of speeches at the disarmament talks. But for viewers who can let Joe Alsop take the hindmost, the summer's imports promise to...
As a projection, the future is now often seen in apocalyptic terms. Fate poses as "the bomb," and the cult of the mushroom cloud is, in many cases, a grand projection of private fears having nothing to do with atomic war. In contemplation of world ruin, a would-be tragic...