Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel of her Children of Violence series, the author takes Heroine Martha Quest from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global disaster...
Flying high over Baltimore last week, two Martin 404 airliners hurtled toward each other on what seemed like a sure collision course. Seconds before disaster, the planes suddenly veered apart. One swept upward; the other dipped slightly. So coolly had the maneuver been executed that it seemed as if an...
Curiously, yet another ABC première last week, Movie of the Week, led off with a plane crash. In this one, seven blind people survived, only to be done in by the tricky, pseudopsychological script. That disaster may or may not have been a harbinger of ABC's...
These situations illustrate the social cost of a financial disaster: the near-collapse of the municipal bond market. Other results include a scaling down of planned airport improvements in Los Angeles, an increase in three-shift classroom sessions in the schools of Dade
Ordinarily we would try to fight the inevitable disaster by effecting social and political change. But you and I both know how hopeless that is. As we watch Procaccino gurgle to victory in November, we can kiss goodbye to the electorate. Then we can turn to the RYM, PL, the...