Word: doomfulness
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...SIGNS OF IMPENDING DOOM HAD BEEN MULTIPLYING for at least a month. A headlong bug-out from the Central Highlands in March 1975 signaled that South Vietnam could no longer muster either the strength or the will to hold off the armies sweeping down from the communist North. The fall of Danang late in the month produced scenes of horror that appeared to foreshadow what might happen later in Saigon: panic-maddened South Vietnamese soldiers trampling women and children to get aboard the last American 727 to fly out; desperate soldiers clinging to the landing gear of that plane only...
Trouble is, the tests have been developed so rapidly that not even their creators understand exactly how much faith to put in them. Preliminary studies suggest, for example, that testing positive for the mutated BCRA1 gene does not necessarily doom a woman to breast cancer. At least 15% of the women who carry the gene will never develop the disease. Yet scientists still do not know how to tell which women fall into that category. Nor does testing negative mean that a woman can stop worrying. The BCRA1 gene appears to play a role in only...
...nothing else, the sense of crisis and impending doom that Asahara cultivated has kept his followers in his thrall. He always sits one level higher than his devotees, and they have to bow and kiss his toe. A follower recalled, "When he found that I was carrying a picture of an Indian saint, he went berserk and said I should not respect anyone but him." In this way, perhaps Asahara's early life was a foreshadowing of what would come later. "When I look at the way Aum operates," a onetime classmate in Kumamoto said, "I think Matsumoto is trying...
Make no qualms about it--Harvard students need mindless video games. Doom is mindless. Raiden is mindless. Pinball is mindless. Club Dead requires thought. This is a bad thing...
Charles C. Savage tells us such a tale of imminent doom in his article "A Society Unraveling in Film" (signed piece, Feb. 11, 1995). Mr. Savage describes for us the now-legendary scene from Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs in which "Mr. Blonde" brutally tortures a kidnapped police officer to the beat of a catchy tune. This serves as evidence for the "decivilizing," "lifestyle of chaos" and "shattering of our cultural barometer" that lie before us. Let's suppose that Savage is correct that we as a society are losing our sense of right and wrong. If that were...