Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GERMAN ABOUT-FACE WILL DOOM EUROPE...
...Jazz Age of the '20s, social critics heard the trumps of doom amid the saxophones, and Poet Hart Crane was tortured by "the phonographs of hades in the brain." The phonographs of 1954 sound far less like hades. Jazz as played by Brubeck and other modernists (Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers) is neither chaotic nor abandoned. It evokes neither swinging hips nor hip flasks. It goes to the head and the heart more than to the feet. Spokesmen for various jazz cliques have claimed that it doesn't swing (or swings like crazy), is cool...
...more substance than a toy balloon. But O'Conner, unlike the great majority of realists, carries his theory further than his material. His is a common, clean response to the common feelings of common life. There are few, if any, symbols in his work; there is no prediction of doom. Frequently he allows himself a laugh at his characters, but is a healthy laugh and not a snicker...
...whom I have seen don't lie when they say we are in economic difficulties, and we had better do something about it ... To hear the Republicans' political orators constantly berating those of us who want to look the economic facts in the face as prophets of doom and gloom, you might think the welfare of the nation is for them merely a jolly game of blindman's buff...
...figure fairly bursting with progress. But Toynbee believes that the 20th century's thin, frightened young man who sees only a question mark in the future ("Is he perhaps wondering whether he can even look forward to having any successor of any kind?") may be equally wrong. Doom is no more automatic than progress...