Word: doom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gloom and Doom...
...series of manic misadventures involving more sex and booze than sleuthing. Tension mounts. Can respectable Wolfe be responsible for the fire that guts Cutter's house and kills his girl and their baby son? Finally the odd pair journey to Wolfe's home in Missouri-and doom...
...silence, counting on the law to protect him. In the hands of men like Thomas Cromwell, however, the law is an instrument that can be bent, Nixon-like, to suit any ends, and More is condemned finally on the basis of suborned evidence. The quality that ensures his doom is for Bolt the very one which confirms his triumph: his unwillingness to let go of selfhood, to subordinate conscience to serpentine expeidiency...
Some countries, said the Secretary, may "see a chance for advantage in fueling the flames of war and racial hatred. But those countries are not motivated by concern for the peoples of Africa, or for peace. And if they succeed, they could doom opportunities that might never return...
Demonic Notion. The wrongheaded assumption that no possibility lies beyond the conscious will is, Farber convincingly suggests, the central and tragic mistake of the American Dream. People who actively pursue happiness practically doom themselves to lying, despair, jealousy, envy and the rest of the punishments on Farber's marquee...