Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ghosts of boom towns past-Virginia City, Goldfield, Bullfrog and the others. Now & then the dice dance nervously and the windows jitter from the effects of a pre-dawn atomic blast at the AEC's test center 70 miles away. But there is no uneasiness, no sense of doom in Las Vegas even when mushroom clouds are rising beyond the horizon. Says a native Vegan: "It just couldn't happen. This is just the beginning. Why, in 1960 we'll have a population of 75,000. The Lord knows how things will go after that...
...stagnant. Arthur Koestler's Age of Longing and William Shirer's Mid-Century Journey, rather gloomy studies of Western Europe, have challenged the optimistic Crane Brinton. Hoping to find Europe not Entirely decayed, Brinton travelled to France and England searching "an antithesis to the thesis of the prophets of doom and the bellyaching intellectuals." Brinton's candid predisposition impugns the value of his evidence, for the reader can never decide just how much unfavorable information is purposely ignored...
...science began to demand more exact measurements. Last week a ten-nation advisory committee meeting at Sèvres recommended that the hallowed meter bars be abandoned in favor of wave lengths of light. Next year a full-dress international conference will make the final decision. It will probably doom the meter bars...
...priesthood in Rome, earned his doctorate there, and taught philosophy and theology at Boston's St. John's Seminary before becoming secretary to the late Cardinal O'Connell. In last week's Commonweal, he put his perspective to work in a timely reminder to Christian doom-croakers...
...Robe (20th Century-Fox), ablaze with Technicolor and alive with romance, action and Biblical pageantry, is Hollywood at its supercolossal best. It also represents an important new technical advance-CinemaScope-that may ultimately doom 3-D as well as ordinary "flat" movies. For the first feature in gigantic CinemaScope, Producer Frank Ross came forward with a gigantic story: early Christianity under the Roman Empire. Based on the famed bestseller of the late Rev. Lloyd C. Douglas, the film contains more piety than wit and more spectacle than humanity, but it is ably served by a competent cast headed by Britain...