Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jerusalem has been recaptured by the Jews. Soviet power threatens the Mideast. Communist China is working on an H-bomb delivery system. Nine nations are now in the Common Market. To growing thousands of U.S. Christians, these political facts are portents of doom, part of a detailed scenario for the Apocalypse. While most Christians were concentrating last week on the First Coming-Jesus' nativity at Bethlehem-these believers were concerned with Christ's Second Coming at the end of time, which they are convinced is at hand...
...invaded Cambodia in 1970, Laos in 1971, and mined Haiphong last May in the face of criticism and protest in the U.S. The atmosphere around the White House was even similar to last spring's, a mood of coolness and toughness only occasionally soured by the fulminations of the "doom and gloom brigade," as the Washington press corps is called. Gambling had, in fact, become part of Nixon's international style ? to seem deliberately unpredictable, to let Hanoi, Moscow and Peking know that he was capable of almost anything, to keep them off their guard. It may be that...
DAVID BOWIE: THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST (RCA). A gripping evocation of the fearful doom that can sometimes threaten a rock star, from one of the most talented-and most fearful-of the breed...
...affronts not only the social but the cosmic order, and will incur the vengeful wrath of the gods. The servant dare not speak too freely lest he be cuffed or dismissed. The master pulls his rank and fails to heed. And thus these overweening master-heroes plunge to their doom...
Halberstam's nearly 700 pages of doom dwarf his tentative footnote on salvation. Can there be a cure for a disease to which there is no diagnosis? An American tragedy, the war deserves, like this book about it, the summary of the Greek tragedy Antigone: "The pains that men will take to come to pain." The only comfort may lie in the usual hangover from hubris. A nation that never doubted its invincibility and its innocence, as if those two were one, should never be that awfully certain of itself again. Who can quarrel with Halberstam here? The danger...