Word: apocalypticism
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The forced march, which cost scores of lives, is the factual backbone of ex-Newsman Joe Klaas's first novel. Like the book's hero Jim Weis, Seattle-born Author Klaas got into World War II in one of Britain's Eagle Squadrons as a Royal Air...
At the trial both men confess, Rab as a last pious rite to the party, Father Janos to save his friends and fellow priests from further torture. But before he mounts the gallows, Rab, feeling "an absolute void within me,"' kneels before Father Janos and asks "to die in...
But he knew this to be a position of desperation, one that could not be held indefinitely unless the non-Communist world regained freedom of action, unless it found other than ultimate and apocalyptic ways to gather and use its strength.
The Lure of Luck. Part of Brazil's failure to live up to her potentialities and aspirations is certainly traceable to the national character. The Brazilians' apocalyptic vision of their nation's future is itself a hindrance to progress. It encourages the comfortable idea that the brilliant...
Ores, Balrogs & Ringwraiths. Frodo is about as eager to do this as P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster would be to play Siegfried. The bulk of the novel describes his trials. Some of them would scarcely faze a cub scout, and there is so much hiking in fog and...