What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World is the seventh studio album from The Decemberists, released on January 20, 2015. The album's title comes from a line in the song "12/17/12", a reference to the date of Barack Obama's speech in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and lead singer Colin Meloy's conflicting feelings about the shooting and his happy personal life. "What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World" received mostly positive reviews. It currently has a metascore of 77 and user score of 8.1 from Metacritic. "The
Obsessive decade Obsessive decade The Obsessive decade (Romanian: "obsedantul deceniu") refers to the 1950s, a decade full of widespread abuses from the Stalinist authorities. Specifically, this expression is used to refer to the Romanian literary works which, following the De-Stalinization and relative liberalization of the 1960s, began discussing the abuses of the 1950s era. "Principele" ("The Prince", 1969) by Eugen Barbu is an allegory referring to the Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej regime. The novel is set in the Phanariote era, describing a prince trying to build a canal (referring to the Danube – Black Sea Canal) without any consideration for his subjects, many of