Word: cataclysmic
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...outskirts of Tokyo-a city slowly rising from the ruins wrought by the seismic cataclysm of 1923 (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.)-smoke burst into fire in a factory. Greedy, licking flames were fanned by a devil's wind and, within a day, a space of one square mile extending into the city lay black, scorching, smoking. More than 1,700 houses had been destroyed, nearly 10,000 people made homeless. Nobody was reported dead, but ten people were listed as missing, more than 100 injured and 50 children, separated during the fire from their parents, began...
...justly considered, upon eminent authority, one of the finest products of modern Italian genius. Sem Benelli, one of Italy's foremost living playwrights, who wrote the poem, tells the story in a terse, swiftly moving drama coupled with music which vividly depicts events running fatefully toward an inevitable human cataclysm. While Montemezzi's score is not necessarily set to one particular melodious theme, nevertheless there is a succession of musical phrases that clothe the words and the thought behind them, their significance, their most subtle suggestion, in the weft and woof of expressive music...
Among the many things which the war was to have accomplished, not a little has been said and written about a twentieth century renaissance. The movement has its prophets. They have predicted that out of the cataclysm of war the forces of pent up genius will burst into full blossoms to lead the way to greater intellectual freedom...
...Tangier question has figured prominently in the history of the present century and twice before the War it nearly plunged the world prematurely in that inescapable cataclysm...
...thousand years and more the political chess game of Europe has been conducted on certain very definite rules and principles. And except when a people rose in its wrath to hand "les aristocrats" to the lampposts, they changed not at all. But the cataclysm of 1914 destroyed traditions of play as of rank. With the disintegration of political parties after the war, Europe has been dominated by individuals. By sheer force of personality Mussolini has gathered a national following, and Herr Hitler has apparently attempted to follow that precedent. Premier Poincare appears to be the government of France, as Lenin...