Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jehovaian person is Charles DeGaulle. Lucifer (traditionally a fallen angel associated, but not to be confused with, Satan) is "the bringer of light"; he represents "things we strive for." and indulgence. The Hare Krishna movement is "very Luciferian," and politics are "Lucifer's field." Satan is the god of doom and desolation, a god who embodies things "we're most afraid of," things low and bestial and also things high and spiritual. Sex criminals and the Hell's Angels are very Satanic, and so are high religious mystics...
...Common Market, of course, thrives on crises. Almost every breakthrough has been preceded by dire warnings of the EEC's impending doom and all-night bargaining sessions that finally produced the necessary compromise. Even now, cautious optimism is detectable on both sides. French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann said casually: "There are really no serious problems with Britain's joining. We want Britain, and all we ask is that . . . she become a club member within the rules." Geoffrey Rippon, Britain's chief negotiator, struck a still cozier metaphor. "Reasonable men, given enough coffee and cognac," he observed...
...haunted by the brie-a-brace and human beings that form the junk-heap of his society. As in 400 Blows, there are garbage cans and arguing couples at every turn. As in Stolen Kisses. he constantly meets up with the dead and the lonely harbingers of his own doom. In this case there is a recluse in his apartment building who is watching TV until the distant day when "Marshal Petain is buried in Verdun"; an old school chum (who appeared briefly in the earlier movie) wandering the streets in zombie-fashion to borrow money; a neighborhood woman...
...Government has responded to their efforts by restricting the use of DDT. Several states have gone even further, banning the chemical completely. But DDT still has its defenders. The World Health Organization, admittedly more concerned with public health than conservation, has warned that a ban on DDT spraying could doom worldwide malaria-eradication efforts, which in the past 25 years have freed more than 1 billion people from the debilitating disease...
...occasional note of optimism voiced by admissions directors to placate their alumni and salve their wounded spirits, the outlook is bleak for the prep schools. If the economic squeeze isn't damaging enough, the growing rebellion of once awed or indifferent thirteen-year-olds should be enough to doom a few schools and hurt, if not cripple, many others...