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...chancy. Inflation in the U.S., revolutions and coups around the world−the litany of upheavals has ceaselessly eaten away at people's faith in the abilities of their governments to deal effectively with the multiplying threats to global stability. The result has been a worldwide boom in doom, and in the marketplace of despair gold stands out like a beacon of security...
Fine's critical foul shots then sealed Yale's doom, as the senior earned the respect of every fan in the gym with his perfect, pressure-packed free-throw performance...
...encroaching on fantasy. On television the Hulk tries hypnosis therapy to cure his curious green condition and takes on such prosaic problems as teen-age alcoholism and child abuse. Similarly, TV's Spider-Man battles familiar terrorists and assassins instead of his old intergalactic foes like Doctor Doom. Lee misses the fantasy of the printed page. "A lot of the plots on the Spider-Man show," he complains, "are situations that Kojak could just as easily have handled." Unfortunately, even Lee has yet to invent the hero who can overpower that archvillain called the TV programmer...
...freshmen jocks." The aforementioned "jocks" were a group of freshmen who for the most part had been watching the Bruins/Flyers hockey game on TV 38 and were summoned by a would-be Paul Revere who went from dorm to dorm in the Yard screaming of Shannon's impending doom. Out of nothing more ideological than terminal boredom, the masses were so aroused. So much for social consciousness...
...texts you haven't read are enough to keep you chained to your desk even if the Boston theaters were offering something to tempt you away, which they are not. And it's too cold to brave the lines for Superman. In short, sentiments of gloom and doom pervade the Harvard campus this month...