Word: cataclysmic
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...cataclysm of World War I shattered the 29-year-old chaplain's classical philosophy; walking among the dead and dying at the Battle of Champagne in 1915, he lost his belief that man could ever know the essence of his being. Nietzsche's proclamation that "God is dead" tolled like a bell in his mind. "I changed from an idealist to a tragic realist," he said...
...Louis Post-Dispatch. Now he stands at the crossroads. He can continue to speak and, by his very eloquence and persistance, force the Administration and its policy-makers to recognize the spirit and intelligence he represents. Or, like Stevenson before him, this man--who forsaw the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs, who forsaw the neutralism of Tito, who now for-sees more Santo Domingos--can fall silent and allow the Consensus to engulf and encyst...
Segal felt China's recent nuclear explosion was a sign that the balance of power was changing in the world. "Even the New York Times," he said with acid voice, is preparing its readers for the cataclysm of Chinese admission...
...love the Revolution like a volcano in eruption," he exults. "I love the volcano, because it's a volcano, the Revolution because it's the Revolution! What do I care about the stones left above or below after the cataclysm?" But he fails to translate this poetry into practice. At the first sign of shooting, he flees...
Modified Psychology. "Observing the mountains of ruins to which the cities were reduced, passing through flattened villages, receiving the supplications of despairing burgomasters, seeing populations from which male adults had almost entirely disappeared, made me, as a European, gasp in horror. I also observed that the cataclysm, having reached such a degree, would profoundly modify the psychology of the Germans...