Word: doomsdays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fashion. The vacuum is amply filled by the eco-catastrophists. The late '60s featured Paul Ehrlich's huge best seller, The Population Bomb, an astonishingly wrongheaded prediction of the End brought on by overpopulation -- by 1983. In the '70s, the Club of Rome predicted, with hilarious imprecision, a coming doomsday of uncontrollable pollution, wild overpopulation and resource depletion (by 1992, for example...
...Comics Superman editor Mike Carlin, hoping to boost newsstand sales, declares that "an escapee from a cosmic lunatic asylum" named Doomsday will murder the Man of Steel. The state of Pennsylvania touts itself as a place for "multiple personalities" to suggest it has much to offer tourists. A character on Roseanne argues that only "murderers, psychos and schizos" can beat a lie-detector test. On election eve, Ross Perot tells a cheering crowd, "We're all crazy again now! We got buses lined up outside to take you back to the insane asylum...
...University of Arizona economics professor Gerald J. Swanson, of a slim best seller titled Bankruptcy 1995: The Coming Collapse of America and How to Stop It (Little, Brown; $19.95). If you want a really good holiday-season scare, be sure to pick up this half-baked Figgie pudding of doomsday scenarios and vague nostrums. The tone is set in the first two startling sentences of the introduction: "In 1995," Figgie writes, "the United States of America, as we know it today, will cease to exist. That year, the country will have spent itself into a bankruptcy from which there will...
Summers, who is also Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard, told the crowd of more than 400 who had gathered in the Science Center that he wanted to dismiss the "apocalyptic rhetoric" and doomsday predictions frequently heard among economists...
COVER: The Doomsday Blueprints...