Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eagle grounds itself in disgust after colliding with a construction workers' crane, and the locals try to fly the bird on a leash. The "X-er"-the man whose job it is to paint big Xs on the windows of condemned buildings-feels himself the personification of doom, gets so worked up over X-ing out so many Fifth Avenue mansions and pleasant brownstones that he has a nervous breakdown. The most helpless, indomitable. charming ragamuffin of the lot is Leroy, a young Negro boy who plays tunes on glass bowls, sells Bibles, and talks...
...people in John Updike's world are tormented. They live with a continual, painful awareness of their fruitless past, their foolish present, and their ultimate doom...
...were in vogue, her shadowy short novel Nightwood won the loftiest of testimonials. Every earnest Lit. undergraduate read the New Classics edition, with its foreword by T. S. Eliot praising its "great achievement of style, beauty of phrasing, brilliance of wit and characterization, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy...
...Palais des Expositions, glittering new MG, Alfa Romeo and Mercedes models had been assembled for the city's annual automobile exhibition. There was only mild competition from the diplomats meeting in that hall of doom, the League of Nations' old Palais, for last week's 17-nation disarmament conference. The West at least went out of its way to offer new accessories, but the Russian delegates had scarcely bothered to touch up their old, familiar model...
...Darling fat girl, anyone who has given so many people such pleasure and fun is doomed to go on doing it." Thus encouraged by Fellow Worldling Noel Coward, Café Society Mixmaster Elsa Maxwell, 78, rose from the Manhattan bed to which a heart attack confined her three months ago and began once again to share her doom with the readers of her syndicated, confidences. Though her ordeal had modified her physique-on doctor's orders she had already reduced from 200 to 165 lbs.-it had not mitigated her relentlessly chatty columnar style. Opening gambit in her first...