Word: doomsday
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Gregory is remarkable for sheer theatricality. His special gift is to alter the ratio of expectation between an audience and a work. In Endgame, he has taken an austere doomsday play and injected it with manic laughing...
...Such doomsday language invariably crops up in discussions about Ulster's future. But the end may not be quite so grim. Sheer battle fatigue may give Northern Ireland the respite it needs...
Customary proportions of war were skewed, endowed with a wild irony. The greatest military power on earth brought all of its technology?all but the doomsday bombs?to bear on a peasant nation slightly larger than Florida. The smallest war, 9,000 miles from San Diego, became a national obsession that capsized a consensus President and undermined some of the most crucial American institutions?the military, the universities and, more broadly, the framework of authority itself, the sheer believability of Government...
This status quo prescription-the report calls it "global equilibrium"-is as chilling as the doomsday prophecy. Halting economic growth is not merely a matter of the already affluent giving up such frills as electric toothbrushes or power windows. Sacrifices would be made by the poor, who have not yet collected the benefits of the industrial revolution. Economic growth does not necessarily guarantee that the unemployed Mississippi Delta black or the Vietnamese peasant will some day enjoy a balanced diet or a private room. But stopping growth could all too easily foreclose even the possibility...
...most Americans, the terror of nuclear weapons has grown domesticated - even if the real threat remains. Psychologically, at least, the instruments of doomsday have been around for so long that they are simply part of the century's familiar, horrific landscape. Last week, in an unprecedented joint effort, the United Nations Association of the U.S.A. and its Soviet counterpart simultaneously issued reports agreeing on the need to restrict the spread of nuclear weapons and atomic stockpiles...