Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prophet of Doom. Sitting in his huge office in the United Mine Workers' new, half -million -dollar headquarters, John Lewis thinks expansive thoughts and formulates them into the resounding sentences so suited to the undulating rumble of his voice: "The fabric of culture which has been built up by mankind through enduring centuries of painful toil and sacrifice is menaced today as never before. . . . America is menaced, not by a foreign foe that would storm its battlements, but by the more fearful enemy of domestic strife and savagery." Certain it is that Mr. Lewis' horizon is broad...
...three years I have had as my constant companion a faithful and pious friend, one Oscar Optimesque, who used to sit on the platform while I pointed him out as an example of the ravages of alcohol. Unfortunately, during the past summer, poor Oscar passed to his doom. I wonder if you could help me find some Harvard student to accompany me on my spring tour to replace poor Oscar, as I have heard on good information that Harvard students are possessed with the devil of drink. Hopefully yours, Rev. Jonah M. Wilde...
...AMERICAN-Frazier Hunt- Simon & Schuster ($3). Latest addition to the crop of newspapermen's reminiscences, containing somewhat stereotyped portraits of many of the world's great, somewhat stereotyped editorial philosophizing about current affairs ("So America marched toward the horizon of her doom") but revealing a warm, unaffected personality emerging from its clusters of cliches...
...intervening 726 pages are only indirectly Reeves's story. In that instant there leaps into his mind the tormented figure of Jeremiah, the prophet of doom, who in the reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because...
...method is that of the biographical essay; his persuasiveness is that of the eloquent defense attorney. Thus, where the facts go too strongly against him (as with Magellan's execution of his Spanish captains and South American natives). Author Zweig asks the jury: "Is it not the eternal doom of man that his most memorable achievements should so often be stained with blood, and that those who are harshest are those who usually accomplish the greatest deeds...