Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hicks resigned under pressure and without implementing his vision -- or re-vision -- for St. Paul's School. His resignation hasn't spelled doom for boarding schools; rather, his failure is an affirmation that St. Paul's rejects Dauber's snob image and seeks to grow and diversify. In fact, during all the turmoil that surrounded Hicks' rectorship, the school remained popular and applications flowed in in growing numbers...
Another night spent digging out the last liquid remnants of my roommate's white-out may spell my doom. If I have to ask for another recommendation commenting on the "suitability of my proposal," I may explode. Don't I deserve better than this? I go to Harvard...
...fictions, A History of Danish Dreams and Borderliners, that found their balance somewhere between interesting and irritating. And the glum report here is that Hoeg's latest novel, The Woman and the Ape (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 261 pages; $23), is a disaster, part animal-rights tract and part millennial doom mongering, that looks at irritating from the underside...
...Chambers could not have been more different. Hiss on first inspection looked like the Fred Astaire of the mandarin left, lithe and well bred, the Establishment's own darling prothonotary warbler. Chambers, sad-sack Dostoyevskian pudge, more Slavic than American in mind, with terrible teeth and an air of doom, seemed to inhabit a flinching shadow world. He dodged through the '30s packing a revolver and hugging the walls of dark corridors. A paranoid smudge, the mandarins thought, whose amorphous bulk concealed a damaged child given to imagining grandiose conspiracies, and messiah roles for himself. Poor Chambers was brutally...
...course Chambers invited such attention. His 1952 book Witness, a now forgotten 800-page confession and jeremiad, was overly melodramatic and Doom-of-the-Westy in tone. Yet his 100-page chapter, "The Story of a Middle-Class Family," is among the finest and most frightening of American autobiographies--Sophocles visiting Theodore Dreiser, with gothic touches, told in Chambers' incomparable prose style. "Dysfunctional" does not quite describe the Chambers family of Lynbrook, Long Island--the weird, derisive, mostly vanishing father, who was bisexual; the mad grandmother wandering the house at night with a knife; the mother who slept with...