Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often seems bewildered and uncertain nowadays, a counterpuncher with nothing to counter. The "role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero," which he envisioned for himself and his country, is more and more becoming a role in a Greek tragedy, its protagonist hopelessly playing out his own doom. He still has the possibility of creating further disasters, but no soundly bottomed hope of raising up his people, for he has denied himself the trust of those who could help him fulfill his original dream. He can only call in the help of Communists who, for the price of helping...
...consequences of the Supreme Court's call-a state of affairs in which each freely enterprising male with a talent for fielding, flinging or flailing a baseball can sell his prowess to the highest bidder each season. But not all shared their plaint that this would mean the doom of professional sports. "I'm not out to wreck football or sports," explained Old Pro Radovich, ready for court battle to collect $105,000 in damages. "I put 22 years in the game. But I don't like to have a man tell me that I could play...
...sneering sleepwalker, might very well be addressed to her material. Even when shackled by it, she manages at moments to shake herself magically free; the grande dame lurches, the veiled maiden loops, culture splinters into anarchy. There are scattered glories with Actress Lillie as an airplane hostess croaking doom, or as a rajah's favorite, or as the girl in a sickle moon suspended high above the audience and tossing down garters and other pretty trinkets. But only at her first appearance, coming-with snow on her picture hat-into a restaurant filled with ghostly elegance, to dine alone...
...plain that the famed author of Rebecca has not lost her tricky gift for making the reader hold his breath when literary esthetes tell him he should be holding his nose. To her romantic shopgirl's imagination. Novelist Du Maurier brings a proficiency for making imminent doom race impending revelation neck and neck, chapter by chapter. Loyal fans need only be told that they will be nervous wrecks by the end of The Scapegoat...
...quest and doom of the intellectual appears...