Word: dooming
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...While the publications you describe as "intellectual quarterlies, poetry magazines, and science journals" have a valued and respected place in our culture, the chaotic world conditions of today create an urgent need for escape and release of inner tensions brought about by the threat of impending global doom...
...showing an unsuspected gift for satire, knocked out a column, sent it off to the Alsops. Stewart Alsop thought so much of it that last week he had it framed and hung on the wall. The first half was a parody on the Alsops' country-club-voice-of-doom style and their long battle against ex-Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. The column's title: JOHNSON IS A LIAR BUT ON THE OTHER HAND . . . Wrote Krock...
...misgivings, Lanza can rationalize them by reflecting that he is making a vast public more opera-conscious than ever before. If the prophets of doom are right, and his big voice begins to slip, he may still enjoy a long movie career; MGM's expert sound technicians, who now do virtually no tampering with Lanza's voice, can work wonders with their electronic gadgets. And if the scripts seem anticlimactic after The Great Caruso, he can always look ahead to the all-fracturing day when some smart producer will star Mario Lanza, in The Great Lanza...
...House declined to take the doom-criers' word for it. Congress voted to take the chance that everything will continue to be level and safe for a while. The final bill is not written yet. Senate and House conferees will meet this week to iron out the differences in their bills. The Senate's bill gives the President even less power than the House's. The best they will hand Harry Truman in the end will be something of a leaky hose...
Later, possibly to keep the fires burning briskly, Pagliacci slyly added that he had also been influenced by his recollection of one of the prophecies of the 16th Century mystic Nostradamus, forecasting a day of doom when "the horses of the Cossacks will drink from the holy water fonts of St. Peter's." To set the record straight, he explained that he has mild anarchist and atheist tendencies, but is strongly antiCommunist...