Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that kind of woman, really?" Instead, Verrett was childish, beautiful, desirable -the kind of woman other women like despite her sexual superiority. "Then when she gets angry at Don José in the third act, it's a different character," Verrett explains. Lighthearted before, Carmen now senses only doom in her affair with José. It is a difference that points logically to her murder in the fourth...
...convict lecturers are from the maximum-security section of the penitentiary, and a few are bank rob bers and murderers. Yet nobody has tried to escape so far. The men realize that one escape would doom the whole program, and they themselves choose the five four-man teams who go - with the approval of prison authorities. So far, the teams have traveled a total of more than 200,000 miles across the state and have spoken to some 750,000 Coloradans. Their message usually goes like this: "I'm on the road to nowhere...
More receptive, perhaps, than even Krock would welcome. The nation is, as he describes it, quite obviously torn and tormented by the problems of an age more complex than man has ever known. Yet not even Krock is convinced that his rumblings of impending doom should be taken full strength. With the innate humor he seldom displayed in 60 years of portentous prose, he recalls in his memoirs the advice once offered him by Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Cheer up, Arthur. Things have seldom been as bad as you said they were...
Even this grisly story is lightened by comic touches. Charley's family gathers gloomily around the radio and hears Gabriel Heatter, the doom-laden commentator, warn "of dreaded pyorrhea." On another occasion, Charley, in adolescent bravado, adds "the suicide caper to his repertoire of small talk, using it to fascinate women." Alas, it only bores them. As a companion piece to Factory, the story sharply emphasizes Sheed's overall theme: the harmful consequences of clutching at visions of the past, whether they are mythical but life-sustaining visions like Jimmy's or real but death-dealing ones...
Like Stanley Grant, Behrman went to Salzburg in 1937, and the memory of a doom-laden summer started him on the book, the only novel he plans to write, nearly two decades later. "I knew what was coming," he said. "The streets were choked with Mercedes full of Nazis. But all that those dear people talked about was whether Mahler or Bruckner was a better composer-that was the big debate then. To this day I don't understand why they didn't see it and get out; but the sad truth is that no matter what public...