Word: doomsdayers
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Because of their freight of dismay, White's doomsday sketches are rarely as effective as, his verse. He greets spring in New York ("Pigeon, sing Cuccu!") and rags an author about a fatuous book on farming with a review writ ten in rhymed couplets. Using mock heroic stanzas and plenty of relish he relates how a Chesapeake Bay snowstorm turned back a submarine specially equipped for polar exploration, captained by an explorer who had sold his story to a publisher before even setting out. An almost perfect example of occasional verse is "I Paint What I See." It pits...
...doomsday scenario seems wildly off the mark today. Many papers all over the country are fat, happy and rich; they have not been replaced by television but rather have adjusted to it. True, television now serves as the main news source of most Americans, but the past few years have shown that there is more than enough room for other media as well. The era of television-newspaper competition has just about ended with print enduring more than a few casualties. But a new era began when newspaper realized their limits and started exploiting their strengths. And New York City...
...Doomsday again! But Dr. Strangelove has sunk to the bottom of some obscure think tank, and The China Syndrome has been diagnosed as a disease of the wrist afflicting Ping Pong addicts. From the grandly atomic, our fantasies of Armageddon have apparently deteriorated, in a few short years, to the meanly fiscal. Rollover asks us to contemplate what would happen to our money-market accounts if the Arabs were to withdraw their oil wealth from the Western banking system, convert it into a mountain of gold bars and then sit smirking atop it, watching the rest of the world lapse...
...smell of airplane glue hangs heavy in the aisle of Woolworth's model department. There is everything here, from a 1979 Chevy Blazer (what kind of kid assembles these?) to a replica of the Flying White House, the Boeing 747 also known as the Doomsday Plane where the president will go to sit and watch his country incinerate. It is, the box promises, an exact duplicate of the model that sits at Fort Edwards...
Reagan agreed. Ironically, he put the finishing touches on his speech while flying home from a weekend in Texas aboard the "Doomsday Plane," the airborne war room designed for use by top officials in the event of a nuclear attack...