Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world he has written a play about the destruction of three innocent if malleable youths: but instead of waiting for the three to be perverted by the Duke and his court, from the outset and in a heavy-handed way he anticipates their final downfall. Everything is hung with doom so that we can neither laugh at their innocence, which is moribund, nor being newcomers to the play ourselves, comprehend their suffering...
...from the occurrence of any other. The confusion is recapitulated in these lines at the end of the second scene with which Hippolito announces his incestuous designs on his niece Isabella: "The worst can be but death and let it come:/He that lives joyless, every day's his doom...
Last month, for example, when RUS was not invited to the first College Council meeting, most students considered it an omen of RUS's doom. The meeting was held before classes started in September, and Mrs. Bunting explained that RUS representatives had not been invited because students were not yet back in Cambridge. While no one should ignore the possibility of subtler reasons, no one except the College Council will ever be able to do better than guess at them. RUS members were "irritated, but not angry" at not being invited. Mrs. Bunting argued that the tension came from...
...claims that her eviction from a public housing project was illegal. Also being challenged are welfare laws in two states and Washington, D.C., that require a person to be a resident for a full year before he can be eligible for payments. A favorable decision for the plaintiffs may doom similar residency rules in 41 states and bring benefits to about 100,000 poor people...
...actor and a director are the play's most impressive assets. In the central role, Donald Pleasence gives a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity; Harold Pinter directorially chills the stage to doom temperature. The very first scene bursts on the playgoer with somber eclat. In an elegant private chapel, dim as a catacomb, a finger of light rests on Pleasence as he kneels rapt in prayer. The Verdi Requiem saturates the air like incense. Suddenly, the stage is ablaze with light, louvers are turning, and the backdrop becomes a penthouse view of Manhattan's skyscrapers...