Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It looks as if you hit the nail on the head in your Jan. 31 article on the Upper Colorado project when you said, "The people of [the Upper Colorado River Basin] want water; how they get it is less important." If it means the irrevocable destruction of good scenery...
This is not to say that The Gospel Witch is monotonous, but that it demands too much both of audience and actors. Set in the Salem of 1692, its theme is the release of the tensions of an introverted Puritanism in the creation and destruction of an unreal danger. Specifically...
New Civil Defense plans call for complete evacuation of all people within six miles of Central Square, the theoretical center of destruction for the Greater Boston area. Local industry, the primary target, is considered the 11th most important enemy objective in the country by the Civil Defense Agency.
In the event of war, the University would probably be a secondary target in an area of total destruction and would have to be evacuated immediately, Edmund H. Burke, Cambridge Civil Defense director said at a City Hall meeting last night.
This time the secret conclaves around the dark oak table in 10 Downing Street were tense and weighted with concern. Sir Winston told them somberly that since their last meeting in June 1953, the hydrogen bomb had come to dominate the world scene. "Hitler was mad and bad-the Russians...