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...preparation for a possible apocalypse, Houghton Library is currently running an exhibit called "TEOTWAWKI: Futuristic Visions in Houghton's Collections...
...TEOTWAWKI stands for The End Of The World As We Know...
...same, the year just getting under way will bring 12 months of millennial thinking, hoping and, in many circles, worrying. Especially worrying--about The End of the World as We Know It (or TEOTWAWKI, the acronym in use on some Internet gloomsites). Apocalyptic fantasies, which have always been freely available in an atomic-age Christian culture, are about to reach another climax. Beyond the obvious reason that the year 2000 is at hand, there's the end of the cold war, which threatened for a while to deprive us of the sheer glamour of imagined annihilation. Even Hollywood...
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