Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic crisis is the worst since the war. Imports are already 47.5% ahead of 1950 and rearmament is cutting down exports. The third quarter dollar gap amounts to $638,000,000 and there are no new loans or Marshall money to relieve this. Beer doesn't think that the doom of economic catastrophe is inevitable. Rather, he figures on another American loan...
Portrait Plus. Novelist Cary makes the sudden tragic ending seem inevitable. Johnson, he seems to say, is too original and impulsive a poet of life to endure life's limitations, and Cary leads poor Johnson to his doom with sympathy that never threatens to become maudlin...
Although the growth of the College would have scaled the doom of the small University Hall Commons sooner or later, the immediate cause of its end was a growing tendency on the part of students to eat elsewhere as often as possible, and when they did chance to dine in Commons, to treat it as a sort of unofficial playground and circus area...
...While the publications you describe as "intellectual quarterlies, poetry magazines, and science journals" have a valued and respected place in our culture, the chaotic world conditions of today create an urgent need for escape and release of inner tensions brought about by the threat of impending global doom...
...misgivings, Lanza can rationalize them by reflecting that he is making a vast public more opera-conscious than ever before. If the prophets of doom are right, and his big voice begins to slip, he may still enjoy a long movie career; MGM's expert sound technicians, who now do virtually no tampering with Lanza's voice, can work wonders with their electronic gadgets. And if the scripts seem anticlimactic after The Great Caruso, he can always look ahead to the all-fracturing day when some smart producer will star Mario Lanza, in The Great Lanza...