Word: apocalypticism
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Cole was the first boy wonder of American painting to prove himself entirely on native ground. Earlier prodigies, like Benjamin West, had had to do it in Europe, and it mattered greatly to John Singleton Copley's clients in Boston that Sir Joshua Reynolds praised Copley's early work. But...
Against that surreal backdrop, the rest of Haiti seems to be holding its breath. Despite the apocalyptic fears of the BMW-and-beaujolais crowd, a vast, silent constituency eagerly awaits the political resurrection of the priest who is referred to in hushed whispers as "the man whose name we cannot...
In his 40 TV pieces -- and in his stage plays (Sufficient Carbohydrate), screenplays (Track 29) and novels (Ticket to Ride) -- Potter did see things under the aspect of eternity. Novelist Julian Barnes aptly described him as "a Christian socialist with a running edge of apocalyptic disgust." Christian, yes, in residue...
In the late 1980s, former President Derek C. Bok and former Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence had plotted an all-out drag race of a capital campaign, with an almost apocalyptic goal of $3.6 billion.
In 1985 McCarthy brought out Blood Meridian, an apocalyptic epic, his Moby Dick, about a scalp hunter in the 1840s; to read it is to say goodbye to peace. Few did read it. McCarthy continued to live close to the bone in El Paso, a close-to-the-bone kind...