Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death of the Chief in 1951 spelled the Mirror's ultimate doom. Control of Hearst's empire passed to unsentimental custodians. Tallest of these was Richard E. Berlin, president (since 1940) of the Hearst Corp. and onetime Hearst ad salesman. In 1956 Ber lin began hacking away at the Hearst chain with both hands. By sale or merger he dropped money-losing papers in Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles and Milwaukee; he also sold Hearst's International News Service to United Press. Earlier this year, he put to death Hearst's unprofitable Sunday...
Women are always serious about love, but Doris Lessing is more than serious: she is downright glum or defeatist. She writes about people broken in love with the doom-laden tones of a Thomas Hardy telling of the time of the breaking of nations...
There is death, the story says, not at the end of life but in its midst. Most pitiful of all people are those to whom a choice is offered and who doom themselves to the darkness...
...stickmen"-men that were no longer men-populated his world; and in his tortured oils, the hell that was always next to him burned with the intensity of a holocaust. Whereas he once demol ished individuals with a few lines, he now loaded his palette with the colors of doom. Memories of My Mother got its title after it was finished, when Grosz learned that his mother had disappeared without a trace in a bombing raid on Germany. What Grosz was painting was not the end of one life but of life itself...
...consequences. As Actor Chhabi Biswas portrays him, the zamindar is a seething complex of contradictions: arrogant yet sensitive, pigheaded as well as lionhearted. He is a fool but there is something magnificent in his folly, and even at his most fatuous there sits upon him the ennobling dignity of doom...