Word: doom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seven-headed beast from The Revelation of St. John, the New Testament's dense and cryptic vision of the last things. But in these final days of the 20th century, religious millennialism has once again found a real world problem on which to hang its visions of doom--the Y2K (that's the year 2000) computer...
...that kind of uncertainty that some religious millennialists are seizing upon, and in the process moving quickly from the plausible to the hyperbolic. In pulpits and on videotapes, on Christian radio stations and Internet websites, there are dedicated prophets of doom. They warn of a cascade of Y2K calamities--massive power blackouts, the failure of hospital, factory and fire equipment, the collapse of banking, food shortages, riots. A Y2K article posted last year on the website of the Christian Coalition speculated that President Clinton might use the chaos that Y2K unleashes as an opportunity to seize dictatorial powers. The televangelist...
...season certainly is not lost--by the same token, two early losses in conference do not doom a year--but after Dartmouth this Wednesday the team will have three weeks without basketball to take stock of the first half of the season and determine if it likes the way it has progressed...
...comes naturally, really. You've rehearsed every day of your life ever since your were a small babe, thanks to the status quo. Ladies and gentlemen, you are being led to your doom and all you have to manage to do is stay awake...
...neglected world of the Harvard procrastinator, exam period provokes a type of panic unknown to other students. Sure, the procrastinator may incite envy as she traipses around campus, seemingly oblivious to the stress of the season. But she knows that papers must get written, exams must be taken, doom is at hand. At that moment, the procrastinator becomes insanely jealous of the GW's security in a self-disciplined ability to make a study schedule and stick to it in a timely manner. It's so easy for a GW, she thinks...