Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Politzer spent 20 years with his study, and that was too long. But he is perceptive in ferreting out the "perplexing parables" of Kafka's style. Driven by visions of horror and forebodings of doom, Kafka's great obsession was man's alienation from himself, from other me, from the absolute. "The crows maintain." he wrote, "that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of this, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heavens simply means: the impossibility of crows." Heavens that possess crows must stop being heavens; laws that touch...
...been injured in a collision between his light car and a heavy truck, was deaf, blind and speechless; he had no reflexes at all, and he did not show any pain reactions. The full medical diagnosis, reported in the magazine Medical World News, reads like a lengthening catalogue of doom...
When word came that Albee was readying a big play for Broadway, the ticking of the deathwatch could at once be heard all the way to the village. But Albee has fooled the prophets of doom with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, his first full-evening play (I do not invoke the much-used term 'full-length, for any work of art that is as long as it ought to be is full-length), and done it with a vengeance: Virginia Woolf comprises three acts each about an hour long...
...would not be out of place at a funeral. More recently she has added some lighter material to create a semblance of variety, but the force of sadness in her personality is so compelling that even the wonderful and instructive lyrics of Copper Kettle somehow manage to portend a doom deeper than a jail sentence...
...sweetest situation in politics is to be able to take an issue and run on both sides of it. His voice tolling warnings of doom, Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, 66, told Illinois voters of the Kennedy Administration's shortcomings. "Oh," intoned Dirksen of the New Frontier, "they've got us moving again, bless you all. But we're moving downhill into the valley of the shadow." Yet in the next days, Dirksen described his palsy-walsy relationship with President Kennedy, both personally and on international problems: "He has been my friend for 14 years. He calls...