Word: cataclysms
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...sank to the bottom of the sea. The legend lived on to tempt some 25,000 novelists, historians and playwrights to mention it or conjecture about it; but Hollywood has strangely looked the other way. Now much-Oscared George Pal, the cinema's ace conjurer of cosmic cataclysm (War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide), has re-created this crazy continent, given it a colossal blood bath and sunk it again. In the process he has admirably fulfilled his ambition to supply escapist entertainment "with an element of wonder, stressing man's suppressed desire to travel away from...
Apart from the celluloid clichés, there is a legitimate drama to the whole monstrous crime, and Uris captures some of it. Unfortunately, the scale of racial mass murder dwarfs the individual. The enormity of horror resembles a cataclysm of nature like an earthquake or a typhoon, and the inequity of the struggle smothers the tragic sense, which demands a more equal conflict in which the hero duels with himself, with another man or with God. Man's fate as it unfolds in Mila 18 contains the hound-after-fox emotions of the chase and the kill, sometimes...
This is hardly a take-it-or-leave-book for two reasons: (1) its content which, in discussing the actual prospects of thermonuclear war rather than leaving that cataclysm as a horrifying abstraction, is highly controversial, and (2) its length precludes any but the most interested from reading substantial portions...
...long run, with the rapid development of ever more fearsome military technologies and the spread of nuclear weapons to smaller nations, Kahn thinks that no feasible combination of unilateral defense measures will provide national security. "If we are to reach the year 2,000, or even 1975 without a cataclysm of some sort," he says, the nations with nuclear capabilities must work out enforceable international arms-control agreements...
Hose on Hell. The Witnesses' creed is based on what they regard as utter obedience to the Bible ("God's complete word of truth"). They accept the Biblical prophecy that Satan will be defeated in the cataclysm of Armageddon, followed by eternal life for the righteous. Other Christians share that belief, but sharply disagree with the Witnesses' assertion that, as the only true followers of the Bible, Witnesses alone will be saved...