Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sammy Davis is not yet effective as an actor. His obvious sincerity is an inadequate and rather embarrassing substitute for abiltiy. The quickly paced second act centers completely on Joe and allows Davis to sing nine numbers, each denoting a different stage in Joe's movement toward disaster. Happily, Davis...
To the New York Times, Goldwater's nomination was "a disaster for the Republican Party, and a blow to the prestige and to the domestic and international interests of the United States." To the liberal New York Post, the adoption of a Goldwater-oriented platform and Ike's...
Slavery brought the disaster of the Civil War, which united the South, gave it legends, but impoverished it. Reconstruction, by attempting to impose revolutionary change, created the South's implacable resistance to change, and thus put off for a century any real hope of racial equality and the working...
His fierce dream of Sutpen's Hundred at first succeeds. But disaster overtakes him and his dream of a dynasty. His grown son Henry brings home a friend, Charles Bon, who courts Sutpen's grown daughter Judith-but who turns out to be Sutpen's never-acknowledged...
But more important for modern St. Louis are still two other facts of its past and present: seldom has a U.S. city come closer to the brink of civic disaster, and seldom has a city worked harder or more successfully to recover.