Word: doomfulness
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...despite the gloom and doom, science fiction also displays an optimistic view of humanity. Arthur C. Clarke in particular created many utopian societies that ceased to view individuals based on race, religion, or nationality and instead regarded all as members of a shared human species. Clarke believed that peace could emerge if the same energies that result in war and genocide were channeled into space exploration and the eventual colonization of new worlds...
...While never verified, the tale lives on because Hollywood loves it. If Gable's chest can have that kind of mass cultural impact, the thinking goes, then movies, far from being just passive entertainments, can influence audiences to change their behavior in more significant ways. If a movie can doom undershirts, can't it also end war, poverty, global warming, torture, obesity, junk mail...
Whether it's a result of Clinton's unrelenting campaign schedule, or the recent allegations that Obama's campaign sent signals to Canada that his tough talk on NAFTA was more political posturing than an actual policy plan, Clinton supporters feel that she has stopped the sense of encroaching doom that seemed to envelop her campaign last week. There is even guarded hope that Ohio may finally prove to be Clinton's firewall in the delegate race, as her campaign aides boasted two months ago. ?I think she's turned it around by being more real and showing her true...
...Saturday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suspended contact with Israel, as fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants raged on for a second day, leaving nearly 70 dead and hundreds more wounded. Abbas' walk-out may doom the visit this week by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who was due to fly into the Middle East to provide impetus for peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians. "In light of the Israeli aggression, such communication has no meaning," said Abbas' spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeina...
...Boyce's account of the Aborigines' doom in an appendix deserves a separate book. His chief focus remains a vivid recreation of the lives of the convicts who adapted so creatively to the Australian landscape. Though they, and not the free settlers who arrived later, were the founders of Tasmania, history has depicted them as merely savage. Yet their success as "bush entrepreneurs," living on and using the land they were let loose upon, was unmatched in the Australian colonies. Yes, they did harm - introducing pests, wiping out species - but they were also changed by the land, and many loved...