Word: doomful
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...POLISH: Ashes and Diamonds is a powerful and ironic farewell to arms, set in Poland in the days just after the Nazi surrender. In Kanal, a group of resistance fighters, trapped in the sewers of German-occupied Warsaw, struggle to their doom...
...lift the sense of doom, Author Uris relies not on comic but on sensual relief. Andrei carries on a years-long affair with a Polish Catholic girl of disconcertingly bobby-soxish ardor ("Isn't he yummy?"). And the grand passion of the book involves a Jewish mother of two and an Italo-American journalist who deices her frigidity. Throughout, Uris' dialogue conjures up hours of bad movie time...
...leader (Wieczyslaw Glinski) pokes his grimy head through a manhole, headed toward freedom. But when he hears from his sergeant that the men he thought were close behind have gone astray, he kills the sergeant as a betrayer and slowly descends once more into the offal that seals his doom...
...through the Belgian Congo. They are swiftly arrested. McNair, as a white man, is quartered with the Belgian officers, but Mukasa gets slapped around by the hard-eyed police and thrown into a jail crammed with demented African cultists. Engineering an escape, McNair brings them all to a greater doom: abandonment for the half-mad aunt, betrayal for McNair and death for Mukasa. Stacey's message is a paradox: "To die is not to have been defeated, to live is not a conquering." In time, he suggests, understanding will be gained. But first, it seems clear, many Mukasas...
...Protestantism-once famous for its diversity-is homogenizing into what is almost a new faith, and if it continues in its present direction, it will be stone-cold dead in a couple of dozen years. This thesis comes from no hot-eyed prophet of doom but from a coolly analytical professor of Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School named Gibson Winter; and he supports it in a well-documented book titled The Suburban Captivity of the Churches (Doubleday...