Word: doomful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Crew escaped the usual doom for senior-laden spring teams last year by having oarsmen like Paul Gunderson and Geoff Picard take the whole semester off. This year's lacrosse team, with the most seniors in seven years, was less fortunate. It was unvictorious in Ivy competition...
...local politicians; the Ed School fears a possible flare-up in the old style and constantly attempts to avoid arousing political memories; and some observers expect conflict between Harvard doctors and the Cambridge-rooted doctors in the City hospital. It is possible, though hardly likely, that these tensions will doom the projects that created them. The conflicts seem to be tolerated. The Phillips Brooks House program in the Roosevelt Tower Housing project, for example, has received little but praise from City officials...
Died. Peter George, 42, author of Two Hours to Doom, the 1958 book from which the movie Dr. Strangelove was taken, a onetime R.A.F. navigator who wrote the original as a deadly serious account of nuclear war by accident, then helped Producer Stanley Kubrick turn it into satire; by his own hand (shotgun); in Sussex, England...
Outbeautifying Lady Bird. He condemns Johnson's war on poverty, for example, as a "pitifully inadequate and misdirected" rearguard action that is bound to fail because it treats the symptoms rather than the causes of distress. Brooke advocates "an all-out, unqualified massive attack on the conditions which doom many Americans." He would increase relief payments, expand unemployment and minimum-wage coverage, "retool our total approach to education," and seriously consider a guaranteed annual wage at Government expense. He would even outdo Lady Bird with a "massive clean-up-and-beautify-America program...
...wealth and charm, who could do everything but was concerned mainly with building a mausoleum to defeat death. In Mr. S, he has created a man who can do nothing but accept death. S, at a fair guess, stands for "singular," and in his singularity lies man's doom. Donleavy is a natural comedian who achieves his black effects by means as economical as those of a gifted mime doing a skit on a deathbed scene. Should he decide on a full-length drama, his next novel should be worth waiting...