Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Farce is tragedy out for a good time. Its characters miss disaster by a pulsebeat (What if the husband had peeked behind the door? What if the policeman had knocked a minute earlier?). Its situations are improbabilities made tantalizingly possible.
Packaged Topics. Success has not been the exclusive domain of conservatives, nor disaster the exclusive fate of liberals. The Christian, a lively, 110-year-old evangelical newsweekly in Great Britain, died last year. Triumph, an archconservative U.S. Catholic monthly, faces severe financial problems.
Lucky Disaster. The airline was founded in 1944 by three young Icelandic pilots fresh from duty with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Business was slow until the winter of 1950, when good fortune visited the company in the guise of disaster: one of its planes crashed on the Vatnajö...
In disaster, it would seem, West found his will to write. In the hotels, he found his subject. He saw them as zoos of failure, terminal wards filled with "dismantled innocents" who had lost the battle for survival in a machine civilization. With the skinned eyes of poverty, he saw...
THE world will end with a cough, a wheeze, a mass gasp of emphysema. So it seemed last week, a bad week, as dirty air smothered cities around the earth. Millions of smog-choked city dwellers began to feel like canaries in coal mines-obliged to perish in order to...