Word: dooming
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...Russian Macbeth. In these and half a hundred other scenes, Author Gouzenko makes the point that modern Russia breeds only two kinds of men-the dead and the damned. The Fall of a Titan is doom-laden, a kind of Russian Macbeth with its pages drenched in suicides, rapes and murders. It is a book about the corruption of a nation's soul. Few scenes are memorable in themselves, but the cumulative effect is poignant and powerful. A wisp of a girl in a chemical plant manned by forced labor is raped by the foreman, goes mad, and hangs...
Judges have more power than most imagine: particularly, their power to doom or aid legislation by way of construction and administration is immense. The only justification for allowing individuals such sweeping authority is that they use it with the restraint so long associated with their office. "Theirs is not to reason why" is as apt motto for the bench as it is for the Light Horse. Their opinions, whether the legislation involves their own jobs or someone else's, must be limited to determining the legislature's intention, and not what they happen to think of the measure. Whether this...
...pass one another, en route, all unknowing, I wonder; one of us spry-eyed, with clean, white lectures and a soul he could call his own, going buoyantly west to his remunerative doom in the great state university factories; another returning dog-eared as his clutch of poems and his carefully typed impromptu asides? I ache for us both. There one goes, unsullied as yet, in his Pullman pride, toying-oh, boy!-with a blunderbuss bourbon, being smoked by a large cigar, riding out to the wide open spaces of the faces of his waiting audience...
...fortnight ago, the competing Boston Herald took note of such doom, saying: "Our friend John Doom has everything figured out . . . Morning after morning ... he assures us that things are getting worse, will get still worse and soon worse than that . . . Despite Mr. Doom, children are born every day, and parents are happy about it and plan. They talk about Harvard, class of '75." John Fox fired back. Noting that he had been the subject of recent editorials in both the Daily Worker and "our dearly beloved, friendly competitor, the Boston Herald," he offered to have the circulation...
...hair-scratching devices. And on occasion, he may even sell a Modern Magic water closet, a miniature reducing machine or even a toothbrush with a plastic handle to hold the paste. Even now his display case bulges to twice his size, and the New Devices spell a certain doom...