Word: apocalypticism
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Putting all of America's MX eggs in one basket seems to defy common sense. But there is a certain logic to Dense Pack that can only be understood in terms of the strange and fearsome technology involved. The closer the Soviet missiles come to the 21-sq.-mi...
The powerlessness to resist an apocalyptic event may be exceeded by only one worse form of suffering: the inability to explain it. Elie Wiesel, sent to Auschwitz as a boy, has spent a lifetime examining and re-examining the Holocaust as historian, novelist and theologian. Three years ago, after revisiting...
Firms whose fortunes are tied to farmers are teetering, from small-town grocery stores to industrial giants such as International Harvester, which expects to lose $1.6 billion this year. Exports have for a decade absorbed more than a quarter of U.S. farm output and most of the surpluses, and thus...
For 13 chilling days in October 1962, it seemed that John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev might be playing out the opening scenes of World War III. The Cuban missile crisis was a uniquely compact moment of history. For the first time in the nuclear age, the two superpowers...
Walser's apocalyptic vision stole a march on the many literary ones that were to follow in this century. So did he also help invent what later became a modernist stereotype: the passive, clerkly man who must find ways of passing time while waiting for the end. In The...