Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first-and best-portrait in the book is of the author's Uncle Christopher, a "swell" of the Victorian era, whose heroic snobbery found its reward-and its doom-in the friendship of that nearly perpetual Prince of Wales who eventually became Edward VII. The story of Sir Christopher Sykes resembles a tale by Max Beerbohm, with this difference: the writer's grave pleasure in his subject never gets out of hand into fantasy...
...envoys were preparing for departure, orders came from Moscow to pack full evening dress and decorations. That created a crisis: only the Communist Minister of the Interior Yrjö Leino had thought of taking frakkipuku (tails) on a mission that would probably mean Finland's doom. When the delegates finally climbed into a chocolate-brown sleeper at Helsinki station, a small man in the crowd cried: "It's just like 1939!" Part of the crowd started to sing the Finnish national anthem; Communists countered with the Internationale. But the patriots had the last word. With conviction, they sang...
...Solomon Eagles (or Eccles) was a fanatical 17th Century Quaker who, stripped to the waist and carrying a brazier full of fire & brimstone on his head, walked the streets predicting doom...
...Author Moore allows that Brensham village has its troubles. When the frost strikes the blossoms of its innumerable orchards, the village goes half-penniless the remainder of the year. When rich Londoners buy up and "develop" the mad lord's crazy, romantic acres, poachers and gypsies foresee the doom of carefree living, and the black shadow of standardized modern life falls across Brensham's thatched roofs. But such events are like wars and earthquakes -huge blows of fate under which a man must either collapse or grin and buckle his belt. And the men of Brensham always choose...
...portrays the interplay of two most fundamental of life's forces: religion and sex. In the cataclysmic conclusion of the opera, when the statue accepts the arrogant nobleman's invitation to dinner, we realize that it can be only a supernatural power which will bring Don Giovanni to his doom. Behind the opera's dramatic end is one of the greatest portrayals of right's ascension over wrong...