Word: cataclysmic
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...moment impresses me more as one of challenge and opportunity than of utter cataclysm and woe,” Lawrence D. Bobo, Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and of Afro-American studies, wrote in an e-mail...
...moment impresses me more as one of challenge and opportunity than of utter cataclysm and woe,” Bobo said...
...evidence from ancient lake beds in the Northeast U.S. suggests that the dinosaurs got their big break in the same way our ancestors did, through a cataclysm that killed off competing species. Scientists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and their colleagues have found iridium, a mineral plentiful in asteroids, in sediment about 200 million years old. Fossilized footprints show that the dinosaurs evolved very rapidly at that time, from the size of dogs to that of dragons.And fossils of fern spores suggest that these opportunistic plants also had a sudden ecological opening for colonization...
...Winkle, sleeping for 20 years until Ted Collins, Kate Smith's manager, asked Berlin if he had a patriotic song Smith might sing to mark the 20th anniversary of Armistice Day. Berlin had been in Europe a few weeks before and seen close-up the international cataclysm of the Munich Conference, where Chamberlain of Britain, declaring "peace in our time," capitulated to Hitler of Germany. Digging out his old song, Berlin demilitarized the lyric (no more "Make her victorious") and depoliticized it (no more "to the right" because, as he said, "in 1938, there was a right and a left...
...world being turned upside down. Sept. 11, 2001 was one of those seismic moments, a day when the planet seemed to shudder and shift on its axis. The pilots from hell who obliterated the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon left a sense of before and after cataclysm. What followed - war, anthrax in the mail, a new airline tragedy in still-reeling New York - made overwhelming the sense that the world is now forever changed...