Word: apocalypticism
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As his country slipped deeper into domestic chaos, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev last week unveiled an "anti-crisis program" designed to reassert Moscow's central control and curb the spreading economic and political unrest. In a speech long on apocalyptic warnings and exhortations to discipline -- but, as usual, short on...
You cannot make as strong a case for the late as for the early Ernst. Some of the sculpture of his post-1939 years was remarkable -- especially the big totemic Capricorn, 1948 -- but his apocalyptic paintings, like the vision of creepy, fungal disaster recorded in Europe After the Rain, 1940...
The consequence of the NRA's lobbying power has been appalling carnage in our streets. Guns have claimed more than 30,000 lives a year for the past several years, and the figures are rising. Think of this in terms of the apocalyptic visions of the Gulf War, the predictions...
MORE THAN one hundred thousand people dead. A nation without water, sewage, power: the United Nations says the scene is "near apocalyptic," "the pre-industrial age." Three million refugees "will die in vast numbers without aid," the headline says. "Foreigners" expelled, tortured, or killed and gold faucets installed in liberated...
You begin to recall the postwar revelation of the utter destruction of Iraq's cities and the deaths of 100,000 to 150,000 young men. You are chilled by the language used in the U.N. report describing the results of allied bombing: "near-apocalyptic" destruction of urban Iraq; the...