Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reaction to the change was mixed. A few die-hard editors foresaw the doom of college journalism. "A woman's place is in the home," commented Managing Editor George H. Watson, Jr. '58. "The female is innately inferior," added Sports Editor Richard T. Cooper...
...democratically up to date, and the outraged ranks of the old guard on the other demanding that the Queen's critics be drawn and quartered, it has long been obvious that something must give. Last week, a terse, two-sentence announcement from Buckingham Palace tolled the knell of doom for the first innocent victims of the battle-the 800-odd young maidens who each year are ritually presented to the Queen and thereby officially emerge into the best society as debutantes...
...friends often seem to have stepped from the pages of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, with their doom writ large on their foreheads. There is Alexander, the perennial student, pompously lecturing the girls on the Hellenic past, and Madame Edlinsky. who likes Jews yet loves an anti-Semite. And there is the wide-horizoned land itself: "We knew without thinking that it was a great, rich country, and a great people. Evil was organized and directed, but the good sprang from the heart and mind of man, and ran like a river between its natural banks. The word 'duty...
Most dogged in the doom-crying, North or South, was Pundit David Lawrence, whose five-times-weekly column appears in 270 dailies, 62 of them in the South. By last week Lawrence (also editor of U.S. News & World Report) had written 18 consecutive columns on the evils of enforced integration; his words were played by many Southern editors on Page One. One of Lawrence's obscurer arguments-that Eisenhower's action was empowered by an 1871 law that had "never been used by any Chief Executive for the purpose set forth" by Eisenhower-was promptly rebutted...
...righteousness that Tito was never able to break; and the bearded anti-Communist chetnik, Draja Mihailovich, whose own children deserted him for Tito during the war and who was finally run down in the hills by the partisans. At his trial, and before his execution, Mihailovich movingly described his doom: "I wanted much; I began much; but the gale of the world carried away me and my work...