Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comfort in knowing that everyone almost always dies together. Concludes Conrad: "The success of disaster entertainment is rooted deep in the concerns and apprehensions of the American psyche." his pessimistic The Culture of Narcissism, argues that modern civilization is beginning to show signs of the breakdown that marked the end of the medieval world-the same point made by Barbara Tuchman in her bestseller A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. As Lasch tells it, disastermania and the selfishness of the "Me" decade indicate that humanity has lost faith in the future and awaits some kind of ending...
...historians would care to push the analogy with the chaos and disintegration of the Middle Ages too far. Nonetheless, a few tantalizing similarities exist between then and now, among them the revival of millenarian sects and predictions about the world's end. Psychics and E.S.P. fanciers, for instance, have dusted off the 1934 predictions of Edgar Cayce: he forecast upheavals at the poles, the sinking of most of Japan into the sea, and the destruction of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. In his recent book We Are the Earthquake Generation, Jeffrey Goodman explains that the latterday mystics...
...other hand, the end could come from mutated praying mantises, killer bees, flying saucers, aerosol cans, a shortage of STP, the retirement of Charlton Heston...
...would hit his head and left shoulder blade on the board during his final tune-up session Wednesday. Undaunted, the Westfield, N.J., junior took to the board the next day wearing a bathing cap to protect his bandage and eight stitches. Despite the injuries and a stomach virus, the end of the 11-dive contest found only three-time defending champion Paul Steck standing between Schramm and the gold medal...
...show's end, this musical tries to end happily. From some hidden reserve of strength each actress, albeit somewhat tentatively, decides that she has the power to start from scratch one more time. And if the shift from mental shambles to self-conscious self-respect is a little abrupt, the energy of the company makes up for the inconsistency. Simply: the actresses and musicians in Children are very, very good and they overcome to a large degree the mediocre aspects of the production. Though the show has its share of problems, it still stands out as one of the best...