Word: doomsdayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this-you can't give advice to an artist. Could I tell Caruso that he's got to sing or that he's got to take lessons? Caruso was born with a voice. Then of course he cultivated it. Without equipment you can give advice until doomsday and it's no good. To the persons that feel-and they have a right to fulfill that-that they want to give their life to what they are doing, I say, sure, go to work, just work, and the work will invite you to move...
Unlike some others who have spent much of their careers amidst the eerie abstractions of doomsday and deterrence, Smith has preserved a sense of irony, and he never quite loses sight of geopolitical absurdities. "The strategic competition was not unlike a game of ticktacktoe," he writes. "If one knows how to play it and makes no mistakes, one cannot lose. And if both sides know how to play it, and make no mistakes, neither can win. After a while, at least for adults, it becomes a boring game...
When MR&A checked with Department of Energy officials in Washington, it found that no one ever mentioned such a doomsday scenario. Apparently, the Energy Department had not made contingency plans for a total oil cutoff. MR&A would find it difficult to model a catastrophe...
...Naval War College in Newport, R.I., this week, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown is to unveil officially the nuclear age's ultimate contingency plan. To some critics, it is a doomsday scenario, an outline for atomic war that could lead to the destruction of the human race. But to U.S. defense policymakers, Brown's speech represents an unavoidable rethinking of the unthinkable: bringing up to date U.S. strategic plans for deterring nuclear...
...Department and the President's Council on Environmental Quality, The Global 2000 Report to the President represents the accumulated findings, statistics and analyses of 13 Government agencies, from the Department of Agriculture to the CIA. On the whole, the conclusions are hardly startling. Indeed, as compared with such doomsday forecasts as that of the Club of Rome's 1972 The Limits to Growth, which predicted mass starvation, political chaos and general catastrophe by the middle of the next century, the study is cautiously restrained, even muted, giving its warnings more impact in a way. The report...