Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Europe last week there was far greater concern than in the U.S. that the Suez crisis might lead to shooting and war. The French were united as at no time since World War II in demanding Nasser's destruction and thereby, they hoped, reversing the decay of their...
To the end of his days Herzen prayed for the hopes of revolution-and yet, in Paris, he was dismayed when the revolution of 1848 degenerated, with soldiers of a republic shooting down its own citizens. With almost lyrical sarcasm ("Long live chaos and destruction! Vive la mortl") he recorded...
At Sodom (current population: about 1,000), where the Lord saved Lot and his naughty daughters, then rained fire and brimstone on the sinful city, a 6 ft. sign went up this month. Written in Hebrew and English, it noted that "Sodom is the lowest point of habitation in the...
Before his release, ailing Bishop Pinger got a 25-day "cultural tour" of Red China, but he remained unimpressed. As for the clerics who have made their peace with the regime, he is sure they are insincere or misled: "I am fully convinced that the Chinese Communists aim for the...
"No Commitments." By this point the chief effect of the bearlike threats of Britain and France had been to arouse mounting international pressure against any attempt to settle the Suez crisis by force. John Foster Dulles repeated: the U.S. had made "no commitments of any kind" as to what it...