Word: dooming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McDonnell said the council had hoped to renovate part of Perkins Hall, a graduate doom, for a student center but cancelled the plan because of a lack of funds...
...there any hint about Brezhnev's eventual successor. The cult of personality that surrounds the ailing leader may have reached its apogee at the congress. But his iron grip on the helm may doom the Kremlin to a nasty power struggle after his passing. "They are postponing the day of succession to the point that it will now be a blowup, rather than a gradual shift," predicts William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies...
...novel opens with some apparently random letters from Freud and an associate, then shifts to a 13-page poem that reads like a dream fugue of eroticism and premonitions of doom. A woman and a faceless lover fetch up at "a white lakeside hotel" and make love incessantly and imaginatively. Meanwhile, other guests drown when a pleasure boat on the lake goes down in a sudden high wind; a wing of the hotel burns to the ground, killing many others. The poem is followed by an expanded prose version of the same fantasy. This time the woman's lover...
...University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the winter issue of the Public Interest, a neoconservative quarterly, Simon charges that the presidential panel and staff who wrote the report consisted almost entirely of well known Cassandras of the environmental movement. In making their predictions Simon argues, these prophets of doom relied on shoddy research and dubious analytical tools...
...pampas; as Senora Perón, she stalked the corridas of power, sniffing for the blood of old enemies. Young Eva told a colleague she wanted to play the great ladies of history: Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth, Lucrezia Borgia. Her wish was her destiny and her doom. Fate and a will of steel cast her as the avatar of all these women, and when she died her grieving lover was the nation...