Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The story takes place aboard H.M.S. Indomitable in 1798, the year after the British mutiny at the Nore. Billy Budd is a handsome, blue-eyed, stammering young sailor who radiates innocence and good will, and is a favorite with the whole ship. The one exception is the master-at-arms...
On a residential street in the Midwestern town of Cedarsville, workmen were razing the fine old Johnston residence. At an upper window of his own house next door, Ralph Kempner watched the daily progress of destruction from a wheelchair, and backtracked in memory over the 70-odd years of his...
The Norwegians had told him that "resistance to the point of destruction is preferable" to another occupation. He had been encouraged by what he saw in France, by the "stiffening resolve" of Italy. Belgium and Denmark were increasing their efforts.
The conflict of these two prototypes is immediate. Billy seeks the friendship of the Master-at-Arms, and Claggart seeks the destruction of Billy. Between them stands Captain Edward Vere. He, alone of the three, can recognize both good and evil, and he is also the only real human being...
The merchants, soldiers and women of the British community in India had little sense of what lay in store for them, those last days of 1856, on the eve of the Sepoy Mutiny. Even sturdy Captain Rodney Savage, 13th Rifles, Bengal Native Infantry, was slow to understand the signs and...