Word: doom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solzhenitsyn, indeed, is a self-styled prophet of doom, and such pessimists are hardly used to warm receptions. But, unlike Biblical prophets, who reputedly spoke to all in their native tongues, this fails to translate very well to the West...
Vanderbilt's Soupart gives least three reasons for failure: 1) difficulties in the tiny egg the culture chamber into the uterus, 2) undetected chromosomal abnormalities that doom the egg before it has a chance to implant itself, and 3) interference in the acceptance of the egg by the very hormones that were used to encourage ovulation...
...guardians of the value of its currency. They immerse themselves in financial esoterica, dress somberly in three-piece blue suits, and give the impression that they speak only to one another and to God. When they do appear in public, they issue Delphian warnings, usually of impending inflationary doom. An optimistic central banker has been defined as "one who thinks the situation is deteriorating less rapidly than before...
...suicide. His novels The Stranger and The Fall describe souls out of touch with a moral landscape; The Plague watches townspeople succumb to a literal and spiritual disease. It is small wonder that at his death Camus seemed the spokesman of despairing existentialism, a cinematic figure as doom-ridden as any of his characters...
...with cinematic dexterity by Co-Directors Robin Phillips and Eric Steiner. The same cannot be said for the treatment of the text, laboriously articulated as if for slow listeners. This seriously hampers the tempo of a play that should speed an audience headlong toward the hero's fierce doom...