Word: doomsday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bowl. Dallas has the "Doomsday Defense," big, tenacious, experienced. Miami has the "No Name Defense," young, quick, aggressive. Dallas has Wide Receiver Bob Hayes, the fastest man in the N.F.C. Miami has Paul Warfield, the most elusive. Dallas has Running Backs Duane Thomas and Calvin Hill, the best one-two punch in the N.F.C. Miami has Backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, the best in the A.F.C. Dallas has Ron Widby, one of the top punters in the N.F.C...
That fact alone might suggest that the predictions of a population doomsday, at least as far as the U.S. is concerned, have been exaggerated. It should be added, though, that the children of the post-World War II baby boom are now getting married, and even if the birth rate dropped to 2.1 immediately, it would take two generations for the American population to level off at about...
...Doomsday Books. The heresy that Schall attacks is most evident in the U.S., the world's leading proponent of ecology. In fact, he says, the grim ecologist is a peculiarly American phenomenon. "Today," he explains, "the doomsday books are being written by the ecologists and biologists who have lost their confidence that tomorrow can be better, that something new can really come into the world through man and his intelligence." Technology, he believes, can provide that something, perhaps in the form of the mass-produced housing and unlimited electrical power proposed by Buckminster Fuller...
...journey is Glen and Randa, a primitive, desperate odyssey by the last bewildered survivors of an atomic holocaust, stumbling through the wreckage of a vanished civilization. Neither moralizing sci-fi nor melodrama, despite its fanciful premise, the film is rather like a cinéma vérité doomsday documentary-a parable in newsreel form...
...been planning it are far too straight to see around the necessary corners, much less through gaps. Describing a conference of scholars on the year 2000, he quotes Chairman Daniel Bell's advice to "think wild." Then he shows how little wild thinking anybody dared to do, even Doomsday Prophet Herman Kahn, who came equipped with statistics, charts and projections. "What is surprising about Kahn's world view," comments Thompson, "is its utter dearth of imagination...