Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worldly Wise Man. By deserting the Boers' historic trek and devoting half his book to life among the Matabele, Author Abrahams sacrifices continuity but hones both sides of a worthy theme: men of all races are brothers who seal their own doom when they resort to violence. "It is not only our people who are in darkness . . . who are made drunk by words and blood," declares a Matabele wise man with philosophical worldliness. "It is so everywhere, among all the nations . . . So mourn not . . . for the Matabele. If you must mourn, mourn for our world that is in darkness...
...want no part of the new Cult of Doom that I see rising all about us ... I would like, if I can, to help counteract the growing mood, among the people of this country, of hopelessness and futility and confusion which the Oracles of Annihilation have encouraged by their dismal words-however well-intentioned those words...
...chief consequence of this wave of headline after headline about Doom and Utter Destruction, of One-Night Wars and the horrors that lie in atomic destruction, is this: a growing sense of confusion and helplessness among our own people. And hopelessness and helplessness are the very opposite of what we need. These are emotions that play right into the hands of destructive Communist forces...
...loud voice of doom was heard in the land last week. It belonged to Montgomery Ward & Co.'s hard-bitten Chairman Sewell Avery, who has been preparing for disaster for the last three years. To the stockholders of U.S. Gypsum, which he also heads, Avery reported that the company had salted away $55 million in cash reserves. Warned Avery: "The thing that hit us in 1929 cannot be assumed not to happen again. Personally, I have been waiting for years for the ax to fall. I am becoming more convinced momentarily that the time is not far away...
...want no part in the Cult of Doom rising about us," said David E. Lilienthal, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, in a lecture at Symphony Hall last night. The title of his speech was "Atomic Energy for Peace," and he stressed optimism and hope in the atomic problem...