Word: impendingness
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FOR THOSE OF US who never carried cards, or even knew anyone who carried card, Sontag's words are more useful as reminder than as revelation It's not too hard to understand why some well intentioned people were reluctant to let go of the myth of communism. The Leninist...
Optimism in the face of harsh reality, then, is Reed's new-found philosophy. The singer constantly agonizes over "the world's impending storm" and "a world in a terrible state." But unlike his earlier works, a warm and positive feeling suffuses. The Blue Mask. Reed, a veteran of a...
Californians still have vivid memories of what Fain did one night in June 1967. Driving along a country road in the San Joaquin Valley, he flashed his headlights at the car in front of him until it pulled over. When the other driver, Mark Ulrich, 17, got out, Fain killed...
Dr. Stephen D. Chorover, professor of psychology at MIT, argues that people resolve the conflict between there fears of impending disaster and the need to live from day to day by desensitizing themselves to the threat. He compares this to the way Americans learned to eat their dinners calmly while...
I voted for F.D.R. four times: in 1932, for change; in 1936, to complete the change; in 1940, because of impending war, and it was no time for change; and in 1944, I was addicted. Finally, I kicked the Democratic habit. The country has managed to survive.