Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fanatical sect headed by sinister Father John, whose real name is MacMichael. Sect headquarters are in Barstow. There arrive the architect, the scientist and the adventurer. During the next 187 pages, at the MacMichael desert palace, the three young men are shot at, kidnapped, finally escape an awful doom, not very much to a reader's relief...
...Greatest Newspaper." During the 1936 Presidential campaign, the Tribune each morning grimly tolled off the number of days remaining in which ''to save your country" at the polls. On election "day, the Times, only important Chicago daily supporting Roosevelt, impudently ridiculed the Tribune'?, predictions of doom with a gigantic front-page headline: 52 DAYS TO XMAS...
...Cummings always spells ego, stands for Nobody. And Nobody is simply anybody who doesn't have delusions that he's Somebody. Consequently he can think of his physical existence in simple terms, can think of death without thinking of taxes, and can think of doom without thinking about bluffing it: god's terrible face, brighter than a spoon, collects the image of one fatal word; so that my life (which liked the sun and the moon) resembles something that has not occurred...
inveterate sage, author & traveler, arrived in Manhattan fresh from Doom and his annual spring visit with his bearded bosom friend, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II. Minus his customary velvet jacket, his customary flowing bow tie, Octogenarian Bigelow in high good humor delivered himself to newshawks on this & that. On the Kaiser: "He doesn't set up as good a table as some of my neighbors." On Europe: "Next time I see you, Paris will be a provincial town of Germany with the people shouting 'Heil Hitler' in French." On Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt, I think...
CONCERT PITCH-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2.50). Subtle, simply written novel of the post-War Paris musical world, brilliantly dramatizing the doom of the virtuoso, the dissonant emergence of a new machine age; by the author of last year's distinguished surprise bestseller, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town...