Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 40 days of civil war in Lebanon, the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold led a task force of peace, hoping to avert destruction of the tiny country and disaster in the Middle East. In a stagnant and ugly situation, he represented a last chance.
The fifth course, and one that a modern Arab nation would probably take only to save itself from destruction: ask the U.S. and Britain to send in troops.
As staged last week in St. Bartholomew's nave, Fludde opened with a roll of drums and a booming threat of destruction from God: "I see my people in deede and thoughte are sette full fowle in synne!" (God, unfortunately visible behind the organ, was a large fat man...
One day in 1948, aged 38, Japanese Novelist Osamu Dazai committed suicide by jumping into Tokyo's Tamagawa Reservoir. It was Dazai's fifth attempt, but he had long courted self-destruction in alcoholism and morphine addiction. The son of a rich landowning family, Novelist Dazai was deeply...
Self & Sensation. The case of the hipster is not so hopeful. He is a rebel without a cause who shirks responsibility on the ground that he has the H-bomb jitters. His disengagement from society is so complete that he treats self as the only reality and cultivates sensation as...