Word: cataclysmal
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...years after his death, he was adored by a long line of connoisseurs and tourists who held him to have been angelically inspired, the greatest painter of his age: as famous in his own way as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Van Gogh or Picasso. Percy Bysshe Shelley thought that if some cataclysm destroyed Rome, the loss of Raphael and Guido Reni would "be alone regretted...
...forever. At the outside limit, the earth will probably last another 4 billion to 5 billion years. By that time, scientists predict, the sun will have burned up so much of its own hydrogen fuel that it will expand and incinerate the surrounding planets, including the earth. A nuclear cataclysm, on the other hand, could destroy the earth tomorrow. Somewhere within those extremes lies the life expectancy of this wondrous, swirling globe. How long it endures and the quality of life it can support do not depend alone on the immutable laws of physics. For man has reached a point...
...accident, the Democrats have again ceded the power to determine their fate. For better or worse, the 1992 election promises to be a referendum on the record of the Bush Administration. Thus the Democrats, as they did throughout the Reagan years, are almost reduced to praying for an economic cataclysm. Political analyst Kevin Phillips, the author of the prophetic 1969 book The Emerging Republican Majority, sees parallels between Bush and Harry Truman. Phillips contends that just like the Democrats this year, the Republicans ought to have won the 1948 election. Truman managed to mount one last crusade against the memory...
...wants to prosper and grow, it cannot even live at its means. It must save and invest for the future. We have not been doing that, and unless this changes we will suffer for it, even if the suffering takes the form of slow stagnation rather than some bloodcurdling cataclysm...
Partly, too, Superman evolved in response to changes in American society, starting with the cataclysm of World War II. In one misguided early effort, his creators had him fly to Berchtesgaden and Moscow and haul both Hitler and Stalin before a League of Nations tribunal in Geneva. Believers in verisimilitude began wondering how Superman avoided getting drafted. Simple. Clark Kent patriotically went to take his physical exam, but when he looked at the eye chart, his X-ray vision caused him to read figures from a chart in the next room. He was rated...