Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel will be on the best seller lists for many weeks. When the Old School Tie pretends to very little, it is an entertaining if innocuous comedy about an American boy in an English prep school, but when it hints at a dying generation, a dying Europe, and impending doom, the novel descends to unattractive superficiality...
...million.* At the time, said Richmond last week, he thought that he could find a buyer who would continue to operate Follansbee at its present site. But after approaching 18 integrated steel companies with no success, he finally accepted the offer from Republic, even though it might bring doom to the town of Follansbee. Last week Richmond made an offer of his own to the town: he would pay a full year's salary for an executive secretary if the townspeople would form a promotional organization to lure new industry to Follansbee...
...said Ike. "these economic prophets of doom have been building up a lot of fences of what they called economic statistics. But . . . they built them so crookedly that every time they bored through them, .they came out on the side of pessimism and depression ... I think all of us are getting rather tired of crooked-fence economic policies." Not until the end of the speech did the President get around to Meek. Ike said he hoped it would not sound like a political speech "if I should suggest to you the possiblity that it might be a good thing...
...these predictions. Yet they are presented to parents as scientific facts, often with the implied or open threat that any neglect might injure the child and result in neurosis in the dim and dis tant future. Many child-psychology theorists talk with the voice of an oracle predicting future doom...
...performance. Conductor Munch last week took no chance on faulty entrances, had his warning arm pointing straight toward heaven four bars ahead. The brass bands broke loose (two were placed in the auditorium, giving a kind of stereophonic effect) ; they sounded for all the world like the trumps of doom...