Word: doom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like a placard bearer of apocalypse, he foretells man's doom from his bloody beginnings. The thesis: man evolved from perverted apes who ate the brains of other apes. Brains being an aphrodisiac, they increased the sex drive, which in turn increased the need for more brain food. This diet increased the size of the ape man's brain and his intelligence. Unfortunately, the skull did not increase as fast as the brain, and the resulting pressure distorted man's view of himself as a part of nature. The squeezed-brain syndrome gave rise...
...prepay mortgages and serve precisely planned dinners at an ungodly 6:30 p.m. The other half dine happily on leftovers at 9 or 10, misplace bills and file for an extension of the income tax deadline. They seldom pay credit-card bills until the apocalyptic voice of Diners threatens doom from Denver. They postpone, as Faustian encounters, visits to barbershop, dentist or doctor...
Stewart described the Alsop brother act as a "combative partnership." Joe was the brilliant polemicist; Stewart the steady fellow and, among other things, a more conscientious legman than his brother. "Joe can play the organ of doom better than I," Stewart conceded. After twelve years, in 1958, Stewart and Joe agreed to "an amicable divorce." Stewart was offered a job with the Saturday Evening Post, and soon established a persona all his own. Shortly before the Post folded he became a columnist for Newsweek. In his separate status, he split with belligerent Joe over Indochina. (Stewart: "It is not practical...
...tale of the Rabbi that refused to listen to Rosenberg/Vrba's report is not the tale of a Zionist suppressing a warning of doom. A Rabbi is not to be confused with a Zionist. Many people were disbelieved in a similar fashion, regarded as madmen for their ravings of such barbarity. It is not difficult to understand, even now, why this might be so. By the time the Jews began to realize the seriousness of the situation, it was too late. They were all neatly rounded up in ghettoes from which escape was not exactly an easy feat...
...trains, prison, drinking (or moonshine), women misbehaving ("slippin' around" in the country vernacular) or death. The ideal country song might be about a guy who finally gets out of prison, hops a truck home, finds that his wife is slippin' around, gets drunk, and staggers to his doom in front of a highballing freight...