Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moral in his works . . . also bears a visible Moloch-like stamp. . . . Cities smoking and in flames, slaughtered victims, raped women, even children hurled under horses' hooves or cringing under the dagger of delirious mothers-all his work, I say, resembles a terrible hymn composed in honor of doom and irremediable sorrow...
Wags forecast that, in coming weeks, CBS would be there when Hannibal crosses the Alps, Socrates dies, and Alexander the Great cuts the Gordian knot. Cracked one CBStaffer: "The series need end only with the crack of doom-recorded and transcribed by CBS, of course...
When the Ekwilist State triumphs, murdering innocence, Nabokov's style is still playful, but it takes on a Swiftian intensity. Krug goes mad. And it is clear that the professor's doom (which is Europe's) came about not merely because he was honorable, but because he was vain, obtuse to evil, and absorbed in his own past...
...Philip Wylies, the Cassandras, the Twentieth Century prophets of doom ceaselessly cry out in the wilderness of materialism. And well might they wail, for the instances of greed, ignorance, needless poverty, waste, hunger, violence, falsehood, hypocrisy, and half-truth are so plentiful that merely to enumerate them would be a Sisyphean labor. But the black gulf of pessimism is not the place to seek the understanding, the patience, the faith that is required by a generation that hopes to bequeathe a world at least somewhat better than one to inherited. Things as they are appear much less disheartening if viewed...
...never a part of the Scripps-Howard chain), the Star became the third daily in a town whose advertisers really needed only two. In hand-to-mouth depression days, its underpaid editors* never knew how final their final edition might be. To keep their minds off impending doom, they used to fire BB shot from slingshots at customers entering the palmistry parlors and bordellos across Seventh Avenue...