Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under Britain's stern Articles of War, and his instrument for enforcing discipline is Claggart. As long as Claggart keeps his villainy within the bounds of the articles, Vere, though he despises him, feels compelled to keep him aboard. This is a fateful decision, for it seals a doom not only for Claggart but for Billy Budd as well...
...after two acts of cascading turbulence, this plot resolution is woefully inadequate and incongruous, rather like tracing the source of Niagara to a water pistol. There are other weaknesses. The play is needlessly long (3¼ hours), repetitious, slavishly, sometimes superficially Freudian, and given to trite thoughts about scientific doom...
...made something of an error last night in conceding out-of-hand Russian control of the matter, instead of granting the Cuban government any leeway to readjust its disastrous course. Our allies, present and potential, can see in Kennedy's simultaneous speech-and-blockade a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom. Does the proximity of nuclear missles justify the frenzied rejection of all diplomatic form and substance...
...Destiny." says Cassandra in Jean Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates, ''is simply the relentless logic of each day we live." Yet the logic of the day is not always immediately apparent. A great many days are filled with portents of doom, but destiny may look quite different...
Classic Comedy. In contrast to the innocents of pre-1914, those who waited, in trance or stupor, for the second doom of 1939 knew they were...