Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Famed British Novelist Joyce (The Horse's Mouth) Cory, 67, failed to understand why the newspapers were so maudlin about his impending doom. Now in a wheelchair as a victim of an incurable paralytic disease, Author Cary was astonishingly sanguine over his fate: "I'm not being sentimental about it. I'm still alive and I can still work, and I might be dead anyway ... I don't think I'm going to die tomorrow. Perhaps in five or seven years, the doctors...
...atmosphere. The new color style, a blend of black and white with technicolor--is an ideal compromise between the prosaic and the lush. The musical score is appropriate. And Huston controls the dramatic pace effectively, starting slowly in the New Bedford scenes, mixing in increasingly explicit predictions of doom, and constantly quickening the tempo until at the end, in the storm scene and the final fight with Moby Dick, the action grips not just the Pequod's crew but the audience as well...
...While designed to make the tourist's stay a pleasanter one, the pamphlet tends to creat moody paranoids out of harmless school-teachers and graduates of progressive high schools. Feeling that the results of the Geneva Conference may be undone by a single misunderstanding, they tiptoe through Europe with Doom snapping at their heels...
...rabbit, and he is stalked through the sewers of a French provincial town by the health board and its ratcatchers as assiduously as Melville's Ahab hunted the great white whale. Like Moby Dick, the great black rat is a symbol of evil and of an ambiguous enveloping doom far beyond the petty retribution of its death...
...Pocketful of Acorns. What that doom might be-a universal death for all mankind in a new war-Author Gascar hints at most movingly in his last and longest tale, The Season of the Dead. It is about the Nazi massacre of east European Jewry. The story is not new, but this is perhaps one of the rare times that a writer of fiction has taken it through the tunnel of horrors into the light...