Word: doomsdayers
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...build ("the most advanced corporate survival center yet designed." says the brochure), has so far recruited not a single shelter seeker. This may signify that the nuclear nightmare is waning. Or it may mean that Americans have come to accept the notion that there is no real defense against doomsday, if it ever comes...
There they go, brandishing Bible verses, preaching of doomsday, urging man to repent. A new fundamentalist sect? No, a small but growing band of church scholars on an "eco-trip"-seeking theological underpinning for the ecology crusade...
...chilling evocation of chaos included in a Zacher LP just released in the U.S. on the new Heliodor/Wergo label. At the climax of the work, as the supply of air begins to deplete, a cascade of falling pitches and fading sounds engulfs the listener in a musical-mystical doomsday. "It sounds," says Kagel, "as if the organ were exhaling her soul." For Ligeti's equally iconoclastic Etude No. 1, Zacher hooked a vacuum-cleaner motor to the organ pipes to achieve a tiny flow of air and precisely the "pale, unearthly and strange" tone color specified by the composer...
...possibility that America has reached its end time haunts the authors of three of these exercises in national self-appraisal. The fourth assumes that an American doomsday is a distinct probability. In former times of trouble, even America's severest critics usually shared the notion that the disappointing child they were shaking heads over was still a bouncing specimen; there was plenty of time to reform its ways. Now, little time seems left. All these skilled critics not only reckon on the chance of an American apocalypse; they simply take for granted that most Americans are living with...
...positive intellect. Can't stand mystics, fantastics, the possessed, lyrical people, bigots." More seriously, he strikes out against the increasing stridency and publicizing of our time, against the mentality which demands that every new work of art be apocalyptically, original, which precludes germinal innovations, and that these doomsday products shatter the benighted with all the force Madison Avenue can summon. Eventually we would need a cathedral to house properly a concert which consisted of one hundred amplifiers tidally shoring up our ruins with the unforgettably moving sound of a single human hair being twisted...