Word: apocalypticism
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The Thinkers. In spite of MacArthur's apocalyptic warning and Hiroshima's prayers, the nations were not making much progress toward secure international control of destructive forces, atomic or otherwise. It was worth noting that the U.S. had made The Bomb faster than the nations could make an...
The Man Without a Face. To many a U.S. citizen, Andrei Gromyko had become almost a U.S. household nuisance. He was the closest visible embodiment of Russia's apocalyptic orneriness. He took walks on Fifth Avenue. He sat in the last row of the Trans-Lux theater, on Madison and...
Fantasy in the Open. In his introduction, Forster remarks: "Fantasy now tends to retreat, or to dig herself in, or to become apocalyptic out of deference to the atom. She can be caught in the open in this book, by those who care to catch her." Forster's boast...
I think Ike will measure up to his new job and help education win a lap from its apocalyptic detractors. Would that we had more men like him to help us in our greatest battle: the fight for individual maturity.
Said the moderate Manchester Guardian: "The oversimplifications Mr. Wallace indulges in are dangerous because they delude people into thinking there is some magic way of getting world peace. ... It would be a change if he could forget his apocalyptic rhetoric a bit and get down to the level of mundane...