Word: doomsdayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early in the campaign, Carter already is picking up a few business votes-including that of Henry Ford II, chairman of Ford Motor-and has got most businessmen at least to regard him without animosity. Says Seattle Investment Banker Robert Block: "People no longer seem to equate Democrats with doomsday...
...when 15,000-plus people gathered in the Tercentenary Theater on the muggy afternoon of Commencement Day 1976, June 17, to hear Moynihan address the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Alumni, they probably heard Pat Moynihan's parting shot to Harvard. Offering the domestic version of the doomsday-for-democracy spiel he perfected as U.N. ambassador, Moynihan theorized that America's "educated class" must take on the "challenge of reformation and reconstitution" to head off a "calamitous" fate at the hands of a young elite full of contempt for the liberal tradition of the West. The crowd--dominated...
Flindt's doomsday piece documents the death of a small town-or perhaps the end of the world-to a rather syrupy, amiably melodic pop-rock score by Thomas Koppel. Shrouded in a black plastic mantle, Death stalks, pointing, closing doors, and in general mopping up human fallout from air pollution. In one scene a rich man strips and frantically slathers his body in red disinfectant. The much-vaunted nude orgy takes place in a boutique where women tussle greedily over clothes and jewels. It occupies about four of the work's 80 minutes...
...famous doomsday treatise four years ago, the Club of Rome depicted a world consuming its resources and polluting itself at a rate that-if continued-would ensure its early destruction. The only hope for global salvation was suggested in the report's title: The Limits to Growth...
...northern front. Major General Yitzhak Hoffi, told his superior: "I am not sure that we can hold out much longer." After midnight. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan solemnly warned Premier Golda Meir: "This is the end of the third temple."* Mrs. Meir thereupon gave Dayan permission to activate Israel's Doomsday weapons. As each bomb was assembled, it was rushed off to waiting air force units. Before any triggers were set, however, the battle on both fronts turned in Israel's favor. The 13 bombs were sent to desert arsenals, where they remain today, still ready...