Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputnik Syndrome is characterized by whirling satellites before the eyes, by alternating periods of deepest gloom and wildest premonitions of impending doom, and by the steadfast conviction that the U.S., helplessly and hopelessly, is falling behind the U.S.S.R. in military technology. Since last Oct. 4, when Russia's Sputnik I spun into the sky, the syndrome has afflicted many who should know better. Proclaimed Columnist Joseph Alsop three weeks ago: "It is now the Eisenhower Administration's policy to permit the Kremlin to gain an overwhelming superiority of nuclear striking power in the next five years." Wrote retired...
...past sessions of Congress. They pointedly reaffirmed that control of education must remain at the state and local levels; each bill stipulates that funds be given first to state boards of education, then routed to schools and scholarship winners. Although the reasoning behind the Powell amendment (which helped to doom the school-construction bill in past years by forbidding federal aid to segregated schools) would seem to apply to some sections of this year's federal aid bills, there is no sign that it will be offered...
...regime. They come equipped with stacks of picture postcards showing modern developments to be seen in Egypt, and, when pressed, admit that Nasser is the author of these wonders. They stress the awakening of Arab nationalism, the need for Arab union under Nasser's general direction, and the doom of the imperialist West. Children are told they must fight for complete emancipation of the Arab people from all foreign control and political influence. The teachers file regular reports to Cairo, and villagers are further impressed with Nasser's farseeing wisdom when radio broadcasts beamed from Egypt describe their...
Albert Guerard is a Harvard English professor, and those of us who listened to his tales of Gide and watched Conrad on the psychoanalytic couch may well contend that his place is at the podium, as a critic. Anthony might be a spectator at his own doom, but like most heroes in the Age of the Common Man, he is more tedious than tragic...
...even gallows' humor wore thin as the Germans developed their policy of divide and kill. The leaders of the Jewish community were conscripted into a council and forced to help doom their own people. They had to deliver a certain quota of slave laborers, and so it was agents of the council itself who fingered the victims. Another council-the Thirteen-came into being. Its job was to tie off the last artery of hope, the flow of smuggled goods from somewhere outside hell. The Thirteen hoped to buy time from the Nazis, and many a Jew hoped...