Word: apocalypticism
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The charismatic Guru Ma drew thousands of believers to a Montana valley to prepare shelters for apocalyptic nuclear dangers, particularly on April 23. If you've read this far, she was wrong.
Yet for all of his apocalyptic outrage, Malan succeeds by making the same leap of faith as his colleagues: he too believes that South Africa is capable of change. Thus far the evidence supports them. Only a few years ago, the government in Pretoria vowed to hold the racial line...
In a way, these critics are taking their cue from the almost apocalyptic way in which many Soviets are talking about their own troubles. Perestroika, said Vladimir Brovikov, a delegate to the Communist Party plenum in February, "for five years has brought us into crisis, anarchy and economic decay." Still...
But Lenin immediately begins to have second thoughts. Perhaps the union will still have too much power over the republics. He dictates a letter -- one can only call it apocalyptic -- in which he laments that he has "failed the Russian workers for not interfering strongly enough in the so-called...
It is easy, far too easy, to poke fun at these idiosyncrasies. What Murdoch can do surpassingly well is move a narrative. Once caught in her grip, the reader flies through myriad complications, signal switches and genuine surprises. The Message to the Planet is not her strongest book. It chronicles...