Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Erdman. His third novel, The Crash of '79, is in its 25th week on the bestseller lists, has been bought by Paramount for a movie, and is diverting not only ordinary readers but also corporate executives and government officials, who assure each other that its forecast of doom will not come true. Certainly not. Of course...
...father of three, Beckerman is indulgent toward youthful ecofreaks. "Poor old radical youth; it's hard not to sympathize with them," he sighs. But "pollution hysteria" generated by such studies as The Limits to Growth, he adds sternly, is another example of the odd doom consciousness that has persisted in industrial countries since Thomas Malthus, an early 19th century English clergyman who warned that population would soon outstrip available food supplies. Beckerman does admit to a certain pessimism about the next ten years. He fears unnecessarily slow growth, and blames politicians who deal with inflation by strangling economic expansion...
...career, is in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which finished shooting last February. She worked without a break for 76 days, some of the time with a cracked rib, playing a sexually compulsive schoolteacher who travels from affair to affair in Manhattan singles bars and finally to her doom...
...florid face has many colors, and his nose is big enough, by his own boast, to "smell the whole world with." Henderson is also a psychological mess. His quest is for knowledge of Grun tu molani (the way to live). What he carries with him is the doom of self-doubt. "Well, Your Highness, you've got a good thing here," he says to Itelo, prince of the gentle Arnewi. But in a vainglorious attempt to rid the Arnewi of a plague of frogs, Henderson blows up their only reservoir. They cast him out of their mini-Eden along...
Zinder has reason for worry. But he and other scientists should find reassurance in the experience of Cambridge. There, citizens patiently ignored political demagoguery, perceived the false notes in the voices of doom, mastered the complex issues and then cast their votes for the continuation-with reasonable restraints-of free scientific inquiry. Congress should do no less...