Word: doomful
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...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...
...severe as a Gothic steeple, or as intricate as a piece of lace; but never is their harmony lost or their rhythm broken. The stylized figures are often a bit grotesque, but in scenes like the "Arrest of Christ" from Matthew 26 (see color), they carry a sense of doom and eternal sadness. The great initial letter illuminating title pages may contain a universe-birds, serpents, angels, men and monsters, each with their special place in the grand design. And within the text, the tiniest capital-the D in Dixerunt, the S in Sed -often turns into a surrealist creature...