Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like the world-even with the threat of war and famine and overpopulation hanging over it! And what's more, I'm gonna enjoy it, prophets of doom! I'm gonna enjoy today and tomorrow and next week and every day the good Lord gives me to enjoy...
...best film performances (Electra, Zorba the Greek), Irene Papas, playing Clytemnestra, is an actress of chained intensity. She bears herself with the regal poise of a statue by Praxiteles. Though her brows are as dark as doom, her profile is chiseled in luminous Pentelic marble. What she brings to Iphigenia is something that seldom exists on any stage: the adrenal flow of a mother's love and grief. When Clytemnestra learns that Iphigenia cannot be saved, she utters a howl of desolation that seems to be torn from her womb, as if a cycle of pain that had begun...
Common Cruelty. What Willie belongs to is the dark, doom-laden Mississippi Delta and the town where he grew up-Yazoo (accent on the second syllable) City. He is adept at conveying the violence that simmers beneath the surface courtliness of the Deep South and often erupts in cruelty to Negroes -a cruelty, he admits, that he shared. At twelve, he pounced on a three-year-old Negro toddler for no good reason and beat him up. "My heart was beating furiously," he recalls, "in terror and a curious pleasure." Until he knew better, he thought only Negro women enjoyed...
...Steerage? The book's cool tone invites no emotional response, but it is certain to evoke one. A sense of great hazard, of impending doom, pervades its pages, no doubt unintentionally. After projecting unprecedented wealth and leisure by the year 2000-median family income of $21,000 in the U.S., a four-day work week-the authors study the consequences: "There may be a great increase in selfishness, a great decline of interest in government and society as a whole . . . More and more people would act on the aphorism currently attributed to a leader of the new student left...
Stoppard has chosen to use Hamlet as a metaphor for existence. Through his fable he marches good Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern blindfolded. They know little of their roles and less of themselves. In fear and trembling, they jolly their way to their doom. Every man does the same, Stoppard implies, for no man can divine the purpose of existence except to know that life is uncertain and death is sure...