Word: doomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them; how Silvestro's grandfather, a good Socialist, had also been a good enough Catholic to ride in the St. Joseph's Day parade. When his mother takes Silvestro on her rounds as a practical nurse, Silvestro begins to learn his lesson: there is more than enough doom and misery to go around and man's glory is that he does not give in to them. The knowledge makes him feel much better...
There is a fascination in fear. There is a vortex that surrounds the concept of doom . . . No terror is greater than the unknown except the terror of the half-seen...
...many bull sessions in marble halls; too many beribboned brass hats; too much religious hate among clergymen; too many economic prophets of doom-that's what keeps the European mess boiling...
...determined, calculating pursuer: Heflin is a frightened--later desperate--pursued. Both are excellent and get fine female support from Janet Leigh (Mrs. Enley). Phyllis Thaxter (Parkson's girl), and Mary Astor, who picks up Enley in a bar and eventually leads him to his inevitable, and perhaps just, doom...
...County Council elections and other county contests (TIME, April 18). All week, on successive voting days, 7,000,000 Britons went to the polls in Britain's first district and borough elections since 1947. All week, the chant of London newsboys sounded to Laborites like the voice of doom. "Socialists lose 15 towns . . . Sweep takes Stoke-Newington . . . Birmingham captured...