Word: doomful
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...doom and gloom? Part of this Chicken Little complex can be explained by rose-tinted nostalgia, but such pessimism also reflects deep-rooted self-doubt, a certain suspicion of man’s ability to handle his promethean powers. Caution transforms suffering into virtue and material progress into sin; this psychology of self-denial suggests that we are sowing the seeds of our future destruction with our present prolificacy. If this sentiment merely led individuals to forswear their own possessions, it would be rather harmless for society. But unfortunately, the modern ascetic impulse informs a wide range of misguided policy...
...lines. The opening bell had hardly sounded before the color-coded trash-talk began. Those same horrid specimens who might otherwise have greedily withheld a study guide or sabotaged a classmate’s project instead spend their hours hijacking his account and sending his beloved soldiers to their doom. The effect is less severe, but the motive just as inglorious...
Amid the gloom and doom is the surprisingly cheerful Delta Air Lines CEO Gerald Grinstein, who came out of retirement to take over the airline three years ago. Now that the No. 3 carrier is emerging from 19 months of bankruptcy restructuring on April 30, and with his legacy at the company securely in place, Grinstein, 74, plans to retire (again) this fall. Until then, he is savoring a victory lap. On May 3 he flies Delta to New York City from his home base of Atlanta to relist the airline on the New York Stock Exchange as DAL, with...
...that the Curricular Review’s guiding philosophy of general education is simply too controversial and unwieldy to be practicable at Harvard at any time in the foreseeable future. It has been diluted by Faculty legislation, loopholed by the same powerful standing committees that spelled the doom of the Core, and tacked on to by ill-considered amendments to such a degree that it no longer seems to us a coherent, viable statement of what a modern day Harvard graduate should know. Perhaps, in the modern day University with its cross-disciplinary squabbles and fragile egos, it is practically...
...that assessment lies a portent of doom for the U.S. in Iraq. From the start, the occupation has been informed by illusions--about the strength of the insurgency, about the level of antagonism among Iraq's sects, about the very nature of Arab society and culture. Those illusions could be sustained as long as you stayed within the protected confines of the Green Zone. As much as any other indicator, the deterioration of security inside this ostensible fortress underscores the extent to which the war has spiraled out of the U.S.'s control...