Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself, then and only then should government step in and do it for him." Goldwater takes stands for states' (and cities') rights, for free enterprise, and for personal liberty. In a nation accustomed to deficit spending and $80 billion budgets, he warns that debt means doom, urges that the Federal Government leave to local authorities such programs as public housing and urban renewal. When the occasion demands, Barry Goldwater can and does quote from such conservative philosophers as Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk-but he sounds uneasy when he does so, and he is often a disappointment...
...POLISH: Ashes and Diamonds is a powerful and ironic farewell to arms, set in Poland in the days just after the Nazi surrender. In Kanal, a group of resistance fighters, trapped in the sewers of German-occupied Warsaw, struggle to their doom...
...lift the sense of doom, Author Uris relies not on comic but on sensual relief. Andrei carries on a years-long affair with a Polish Catholic girl of disconcertingly bobby-soxish ardor ("Isn't he yummy?"). And the grand passion of the book involves a Jewish mother of two and an Italo-American journalist who deices her frigidity. Throughout, Uris' dialogue conjures up hours of bad movie time...
...leader (Wieczyslaw Glinski) pokes his grimy head through a manhole, headed toward freedom. But when he hears from his sergeant that the men he thought were close behind have gone astray, he kills the sergeant as a betrayer and slowly descends once more into the offal that seals his doom...
...through the Belgian Congo. They are swiftly arrested. McNair, as a white man, is quartered with the Belgian officers, but Mukasa gets slapped around by the hard-eyed police and thrown into a jail crammed with demented African cultists. Engineering an escape, McNair brings them all to a greater doom: abandonment for the half-mad aunt, betrayal for McNair and death for Mukasa. Stacey's message is a paradox: "To die is not to have been defeated, to live is not a conquering." In time, he suggests, understanding will be gained. But first, it seems clear, many Mukasas...