Word: cataclysm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five great dyings--and numerous smaller events--have occurred in the past 600 million years. Among the more significant: the Cambrian disasters some 500 million years ago, when many species of segmented creatures called trilobites disappeared from the seas they once dominated; the biggest of the extinctions, the Permian cataclysm of 248 million years ago, when up to 90% of all marine species died; and the late-Cretaceous event 65 million years ago, which saw the destruction of the dinosaurs and many other groups of species, including the microscopic organisms responsible for creation of the white cliffs of Dover...
...grow calmly into a happiness that is, inevitably, cut short by war and its aftermath, "the Lent that was to endure all our lives." One measure of West's skill is her ability to make private suffering seem moving and memorable, even when set against a background of public cataclysm...
...case, the Soviets left no doubt that killing Star Wars remains their prime objective. Shultz last week devoted many of his 14 hours of talks with Gromyko to explaining the U.S. position that successful development of a defensive system would enhance nuclear stability and lessen the danger of a cataclysm. He got nowhere. Gromyko once grumbled, "I have heard six explanations of SDI and I still do not understand your point." In his departure statement, which he read to reporters in English, Moscow's Foreign Minister took care to note that "the Soviet side particularly stressed the importance of preventing...
Written in 1904, Summerfolk was prescient about the 1905 revolution in Russia, which was a dress rehearsal for the cataclysm that brought the Bolsheviks to power twelve years later. Reflecting the boredom and despair of the Russian middle class, it is Gorky's most Chekhovian work. It follows, without an obvious plot, the lives and loves of the summer folk who spend their vacations, as always, in cottages in the woods. Sellars, 26, who came to national attention with a production of The Inspector General at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard while he was still an undergraduate there...
...whom they both revile and revere to this day. When one talks to those who knew Mao personally, one comes across an exquisite perplexity as they try to untangle the revolution from the man who made it, the hero of the revolution from the villain who brought it to cataclysm. Those who attended him during his glory days and in his madness wonder what caused the devilish change in him, as well as when it took place...