Word: doomful
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...Home, a recent drama about the British housing shortage, so electrified audiences with its high-voltage indictment of bureaucratic bungling that it prompted headline stories in the Times and the Guardian and a political debate. Scolded Opposition Leader Ted Heath: "Government action of the wrong kind can spell out doom for the Cathys of this world...
...place and family are handled with the sureness of J. P. Marquand. The rhythm of the seas moves through the novel's pages, from an idyllic postwar voyage down the New England coast to the final, brilliant set piece, a Caribbean cruise over which Dave's doom gathers like a rifle slowly being sighted down a sunny avenue. A misty morning approach to Columbus' landfall on San Salvador provides the symbol of all that was thought possible, the poignancy of all that was believed lost, by the generation that knew Kennedy...
...Viet Nam presents some Americans with an unparalleled opportunity to indulge in a national habit: selfcriticism. In this expansion of three lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright raises enough dire doubts about the American character to doom a dozen Romes...
...California's major newspapers, the Hearst Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Chandler-controlled Los Angeles Times (both families are represented on the board of regents), agreed editorially that Kerr's dismissal had been motivated by his longtime failure to quell student rebellion. The Times proposed that "doom criers," who talk about the university facing "a crisis from which it may not recover, do grave disservice to the university and to those who must cope with its problems." So far, at least, there was little evidence that Kerr's dismissal would have much, if any, immediate effect...
Stark Mortality. Romanesque art gradually came to express a sense of impending doom. In some works, God became a magistrate of man's fate. The Last Judgment replaced the Crucifixion as a popular subject. In a fragment of a 12th century tympanum, or semicircular panel atop a doorway, the Apostles appear garbed in ordinary robes, looking toward the missing figure of God. The significance lies in the stark mortality of Matthew, Peter, Paul and John, portrayed like any common men before the terror of God. The 13th century Gothic period was more orderly than awestruck. A stained-glass lancet...