Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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India will be left in a disunited, chaotic condition by any move for independence. Withdrawal of foreign capital will ruin the young country's economy, while cleavages between Mohammedan, Hindu and northern seats will destroy any vestige of national unity, the Professor emphasized...
...Order. Actually the "New Order" is not a plan but a chaotic attempt to rule 150,000,000 people by terror, hunger and propaganda. German propaganda promises a unified Europe; there is nothing Germany wants less. She treats every captive nation differently: Danes the best, Poles the worst, Polish Jews worst of all. This prevents the captives from having any common ground to stand on. Germany is at the center of the web, but there are few cross-threads from nation to nation...
They flew over the chaotic tragedies of a landscape which from that height was as unpeopled as if it were in a museum case: "All that I see is the bric-a-brac of another age exhibited under a pure crystal without tremor." Saint-Exupéry, in his mind, revisited strange depths of his childhood; and meditated upon death, defeat, victory, treachery...
...crushes them in a mad whirl of meaningless activity, devoid of all values, empty of all reality. A climax is reached in the mad piano-playing of young Nicky in the second act, louder and louder as his sensitive mind is driven close to insanity by the chaotic scene that surrounds him; his solution in the third act seems weak and superficial by comparison...
What was to be done? There was only one way out, said the President-set a ceiling on prices. Said he: "In this way alone can the nation be protected from the evil consequences of a chaotic struggle for gains which must prove either illusory or unjust, and which must lead to the disaster of unchecked inflation...