Word: doom
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Still, many educators believe that the contraction of the 1990s need not spell doom for U.S. universities. If major institutions concentrate on what they do best and stop trying to be all things to all students, they may actually emerge stronger than ever. "What we are witnessing is the death of the 19th century research university," says David Scott Kastan, chairman of Columbia's department of English and comparative literature. Such institutions are enormously inefficient, but there are good ways and bad ways to prune them. "There's the democracy-of-pain option," he explains, "whereby you cut across...
Still, amid predictions of gloom and doom at other colleges, Harvard set a new record last spring by awarding $29.5 million in grants and $53 million in total financial aid, according to Miller...
...tried to buck up their flagging spirits the day before his television address with an unsentimental farewell chat in the Kremlin office, assuring them that they need not worry about the future. As a participant put it, "The moment anyone was tempted to give way to gloom and doom, he just would not allow it." But those who could read Gorbachev's lexicon of looks saw something more going on last week behind the remarkable show of self-control. The brilliant sparkle in his eyes that used to keep visitors riveted in place seemed to flicker out. Confided a close...
...story is doom. It begins with Bessie's being tested for mysterious bruises that signal leukemia. It ends with her facing quick death, knowing she must abandon the father and aunt she has served so long and the nephews she has begun to help. The true tragedy, the most apt AIDS metaphor, is that the world needs more people like her and is about to have one less...
Since so many of Spielberg's movies have dealt with abandoned or abducted children (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Empire of the Sun, just to name the top of the line), no one can doubt the director's emotional attachment to his material. It's just that he has chosen the wrong way to demonstrate it. In effect, he has spoiled his brainchild rotten. Hook is not bratty, which might at least have been fun. It's stuffy, like one of those overdressed rich kids, standing forlorn in the corner...