Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moorish-Byzantine architecture is overlaid with stalactite-jagged pieces of stone that evoke a heavy grottolike or grim moonscape atmosphere and achieve a feeling of gloom and doom. Although there were some boos for the scenery on opening night, it did suggest a kind of nightmarish psychological symbolism, and to some critics it made the torment of the characters seem much more lifelike...
...critics had criticized the musical's shortchanging of the serious aspects of the play from which it had been adapted, Jean Giraudoux's Mad-woman of Chaillot. Apparently the authors took this prevalent criticism so seriously that they decided to drown the first act with eerie, sur-realistic doom. The audience was bored and dumbfounded, particularly considering the fact that the unchanged second act had a light, humorous tone...
Mumford's critics have since portrayed him as an implacable foe of technology, a relic of the Victorian age who prattles mindlessly about how automobiles and jet-planes will be the doom of us all. Mumford himself finds it "hilariously funny that people think I despise technology." He doesn't: he wanted to be an electrical engineer before he set off on his writing career. It is just that while most people uncritically accept applied science for the wealth it creates, Mumford has remained an unswerving humanist, asking where man fits...
Ahead lay clearly defined perils, and perhaps some uncharted ones as well, Power-or oxygen-supply failures so far from earth might well doom the astronauts. Failure of the key Service Propulsion System (SPS) at crucial junctures could send them crashing into the moon or leave them stranded in lunar orbit...
...abstention from humanity is a vote for evil. When Yakov goes to trial the story halts, as if the future were epilogue. Unfortunately, it is not. Malamud based his novel on the agonies of a real Russian Jew, Mendel Beiliss, who was finally exonerated. Torn between actuality and false doom, The Fixer becomes a victim of artistic indecision...