Word: destructionism
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Savage Grace, a deadpan chronicle of this cesspool of a household, is presented as a collage of documents and reminiscences, in the manner of the 1982 best seller Edie, another glimpse of self-destruction among the elite. The mélange is repetitive yet oddly incomplete, particularly about the family's...
After reading the words of the Enola Gay's co-pilot ("My God, what have we done?"), I wondered if there was an equivalent sentiment from a Japanese officer who participated in the Dec. 7, 1941, destruction at Pearl Harbor. Gloria S. Cohen Norristown, Pa.
Death and destruction. Looting and violence. Repression and response. The convulsions of a divided country's worst crisis in more than two decades intensified in South Africa last week. As the state of emergency continued in the black townships of the Johannesburg area and the eastern Cape, rioting erupted in...
The pastoral letter from El Salvador's Roman Catholic bishops was pessimistic. It cited the "grave situation affecting almost all Salvadorans . . . due most of all to the violence of war" and warned of an imminent escalation in the country's six-year civil conflict. The bishops pointed with concern to...
For 33 years it was difficult to decide whether the man they called the Georgia Peach belonged on the base paths or with the sociopaths. Yet there is no one who more clearly deserved a place in the Hall of Fame, and he was the first player voted in at...