Word: doomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there any doubt as to the embarrassment. White's bleak and austere vision is deeply antipathetic to the semiofficial Australian credo with its jovial good cobbery, manly democratic virtues and no-nonsense sex. White sees Australia, like his defeatist characters, as drifting toward a lost-generation doom of "impregnable negation, where there are no questions, only answers...
...evidenced by her Life cover story "What Killed Marilyn Monroe?"), Mrs. Luce was thoroughly disgusted with the Presidential campaign. She complains that "almost no issues were discussed." "For example, we haven't had a China policy in fifty years." In this ideological vacuum, according to Mrs. Luce, "Republican doom-crying was so much less effective than Democratic prosperity-shouting...
...Luce prophesies doom for the Republican party. "If neither the hard-core conservative wing nor the moderate wing can gain control of the GOP," she muses, "they must either split or compromise once again on me-too leadership." But "me-too leadership" would be unfortunate, she goes on, so the only solution seems to be a "tremendous charismatic leader." Then again, "rah-rah" talk for any single leader won't bring victory, she insists. And even if a national conference to settle policy questions were a reasonable possibility, it would never work, adds Mrs. Luce...
Duerrenmatt's che sera sera fatalism is colored by a little wit, less eloquence, and the kind of oracular vision that informs playgoers that the work of atomic scientists might doom the human race. Cronyn, Tandy, Voskovec and, most especially, Robert Shaw, perform with the unerring precision of fine Swiss watches, but they are sealed in an intellectual Swiss cheese...
Richmond Flowers, attorney general of Alabama, told Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats yesterday that the Democratic organization in his state was moving toward a "state of chaos and doom...