Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spare and dry; at his peak, his closest neighbors are the lyricists of ancient Greece. Where lesser poets exalt or complain lustily, Graves writes like one who is in perpetual mourning but is also far too proud to take refuge in disillusioned reading or drinking. This combination of subject doom and kingly dignity gives his works the special quality that distinguishes him from all other poets...
During the adjustment after the end of the Korean war, a dip in employment brought a chorus of doom and gloom. But never before has the U.S. gone through a postwar economic adjustment with so little disturbance. The number of U.S. residents now gainfully employed (62,703,000) is the highest ever for this season of the year. Unemployment (2,489,000) is a regional rather than a national problem, and is centered largely in chronically sick industries, e.g., textiles and coal...
...this point was Indiana's Senator Capehart, who fought bitterly with Fulbright during the hearings. Filing a minority report along with three other Republican Senators (Ohio's Bricker, Utah's Bennett and Maryland's Beall), Capehart accused the Democrats of bringing forth a gloom-and-doom report, aimed at damaging the Republican Administration. The real reasons for the rise in stock prices, wrote Capehart, were not "iniquitous speculation," but the higher rates of production, and the stability that the Eisenhower Administration has brought about...
...TWELVE PICTURES, by Edith Simon (367 pp.; Putnam; $3.95), is bathed in eerie, sth century Teutonic mists as British Novelist Simon (The Golden Hand) retells the dark, doom-laden Nibelungenlied. The events in it are drawn from somewhat different sources from the ones Wagner used in his familiar brooding operas. Siegfried, hero of the Rhine, jilts Brunhilde and marries a princess of Burgundy named Kriemhild. Brunhilde, a kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love, but Hagen, the One-eyed, who believes the pagan gods have been flouted by this turn of affairs, pries from Kriemhild...
...Stories, Ivanhoe, the Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare, Tom Sawyer, and Treasure Island. For the 13-year-olds and up: Lady of the Lake, The Call of the Wild, David Copperfield, Huckleberry Finn, Lays of Ancient Rome, A Tale of Two Cities, Idylls of the King, Westward Ho!, Lorna Doom, Kidnapped and Two Years Before the Mast...