Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action manages to meander through both time and space in haphazard fashion that loses much of the plot in the resulting confusion of dash-backs and scene changes. June Allyson, daughter of a piano virtuoso gone wrong, seems inspired to follow the fingers of her unlucky father to her doom. But before she strikes too many wrong notes, the rest of the cast comes bustling to her rescue, uncovers her hidden love and chalks up another point for the old Arabian saying...
Although the growth of the college would have scaled the doom of the small University Hall Commons sooner or later, the immediate cause of its end was a growing tendency on the part of students to eat elsewhere as often as possible, and when they did chance to dine in Commons, to treat it as a sort of unofficial playground and circus area. The whole early history of the building's first floor features rebellion and riot, which started on a major scale in 1818, when food war broke out between classes. Each class ate in a different room...
...argument is propped with three relatively new influences which the author thinks doom the American free-enterprise system; the repudiation of the old colonial system which will make it more difficult to dispose of surplus goods; the withdrawal of increasing sections of the world from the orbit of capitalist control into that of the socialistic states; the greatly increased productivity of the United States making inevitable and increasing the intensity of the crisis when it comes. In Sternberg's view, these factors will force a major depression with the possibilities of resolving it under the present economic system more remote...
...entire Soviet Union is a concentration camp. . . . Even men belonging to the closest entourage of the dictator do not feel safe. . . . This is why the great majority of the Russian people hate the Soviet regime. . . . And this is the reason why I cannot return to my homeland and doom my family...
...hope retaineth aught of green." Warren's selection of this particular line to serve as epigraph for his novel furnishes the key to the evolvement of his thought across the past few years. All of Warren's work has been informed with an acute and very private sense of Doom. But in his maturer poems, and now in "All The King's Men," Warren has translated this vision of Evil into one of religious affirmation. Willie Stark is corrupted and dies, but through his death Jack Burden finds a love and happiness he had never known. In this does Willie...