Word: doomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annual ADVOCATE-HDC playwrighting (sic) contest." Mr. Cole has evidently decided that the stage is eminently suited to flippant dialectic: his play does not have characters, but rather attitudes, few actions of the body, but many intricate actions of the soul. This sort of mental horseplay does not necessarily doom a literary effort, but in Mr. Cole's case the tone is annoyingly didactic, the intention overly profound--and the results predictably dull...
...brings to the Square, and the money it pays the city in lies of taxes.) It is about time that Harvard stopped bringing out its experts like a traveling vaudeville team to speak as private citizens against detrimental projects. It is about time that these men stopped preaching doom and started practicing in Cambridge affairs. This town has much more machinery for reform than New Haven even had What it needs is leadership...
...understand and share such desiccation of soul. As British Critic V. S. Pritchett says of Querry-in a sense of contemporary man-"He can face a fact; he cannot feel." In the face of intolerable pain, man responds by anesthesia. His fate, made visible and horrible in the doom of the leper, is death on the installment plan...
...glass of water, so the humblest of men, in the exercise of his free will and choice, affects the course of history. Those who throw up their hands in futility have, in Jaspers' view, succumbed to the Marxist fallacy of regarding history as an irreversible process of doom or salvation. In truth, says Jaspers, the basic process of history lies in freedom itself: "It results from human decisions-decisions which have not yet been finally made...
...Hartford, furthered his campaign last week for Connecticut's G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination in 1962. Speaking to Young Republicans, he took the trouble carefully to disassociate himself from Brother Joe's "enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket" and declared: "I am not a prophet of gloom and doom like my brother, Joseph-whose keeper...