Word: doom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encroaching on fantasy. On television the Hulk tries hypnosis therapy to cure his curious green condition and takes on such prosaic problems as teen-age alcoholism and child abuse. Similarly, TV's Spider-Man battles familiar terrorists and assassins instead of his old intergalactic foes like Doctor Doom. Lee misses the fantasy of the printed page. "A lot of the plots on the Spider-Man show," he complains, "are situations that Kojak could just as easily have handled." Unfortunately, even Lee has yet to invent the hero who can overpower that archvillain called the TV programmer...
...freshmen jocks." The aforementioned "jocks" were a group of freshmen who for the most part had been watching the Bruins/Flyers hockey game on TV 38 and were summoned by a would-be Paul Revere who went from dorm to dorm in the Yard screaming of Shannon's impending doom. Out of nothing more ideological than terminal boredom, the masses were so aroused. So much for social consciousness...
...texts you haven't read are enough to keep you chained to your desk even if the Boston theaters were offering something to tempt you away, which they are not. And it's too cold to brave the lines for Superman. In short, sentiments of gloom and doom pervade the Harvard campus this month...
Hookers, happy or otherwise, do not necessarily lack the puritan virtues of hard work, thrift and capital accumulation. Nevertheless, Lasch, a history professor at Rochester University, legitimately finds cracks of doom in our sanguinity. His thunderings shrivel our "ironic detachment," his term for a sense of humor...
PROPHETS OF DOOM? Psychics? They are neither. Scott-Heron and Jackson are positive. To be negative would be to say nothing. In "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," they said, "NBC will not be able to predict the winner at 8:32 or report from 29 districts/There will be no highlights on the 11 o'clock news/The revolution will not be right back after a message about a white tornado, white lightning or white people." The lyrics both serve as a warning and a motivation to become involved. As for proof of any sixth sense, that doesn't exist either...