Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIFTON uses his work with atom-bomb survivors as the jumping-off point for this study. The survivors of the bombings, he says, found themselves confronted with a set of boundaries with which they had never had to deal. Those were the boundaries of destruction, which had previously seemed obvious and somewhat controllable. In a normal war, Lifton says, men are killed by bullets or arrows, and the community suffers a loss, but there is a clear set of limits to the destruction. The atomic bomb for the first time has confronted man with a "permanent encounter" with death...
...Farfetched Fables is the most disappointing of the three plays, because, at first, there seems to be some hope for it. Written in 1948, it starts with a few well chosen and bitter words about Hiroshima and the atom bomb. It soon becomes evident, though, that even if Shaw's sense of outrage grew fierce in his old age, he never learned to temper his sledge hammer blows. The polemical tone of the play, which lectures the audience as if they were mad war mongers with the intelligence of six year olds, is both offensive and unpolished. Thus Fables, which...
...Powers of Ten, one such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to a meeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the starting point-the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach-and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...
...Anything else," he said, "is destructive of education, suppressive of freedom, and just downright cruelty." Even the atom bomb is of "minor destructive force" in comparison with the growing national problem of "forced integration...
Among the fascinating new problems of medical research is how to use radioisotopes-forms of normally stable elements made radioactive in atom smashers. Radioisotopes have already become helpful in irradiating and arresting cancer. Lately, researchers have achieved even more significant results in cancer diagnosis. Because radioisotopes tend to concentrate in certain organs or diseased tissues, physicians have been able to detect tumors as much as six months before they appear on conventional X rays. Result: an important head start in the treatment of those that are malignant...