Word: eliot
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...York, N.Y. and Eliot House...
...course, Eliot was writing metaphorically about a culture that he felt was exhausted and dying, but with the advent of the atom bomb, the end of the world got a lot more literal. (Eliot later confessed that he wouldn't have written the same lines after the coming of the H-bomb.) One of the cultural aftershocks of the bombing of Hiroshima was the awakening of Godzilla and the Japanese monster movie as a way of reckoning with the nightmare of U.S. atomic weapons. "Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears," says J.J. Abrams...
After the beast is through with us, what then? The postapocalypse comes in two varieties: the sterile kind, which leaves behind a dead desert, and the fertile kind, in which destruction makes room for new life and nature gloriously reclaims a human-free earth. In The Road, McCarthy?following Eliot and Mad Max?imagines an earth from which every cell of nonhuman life has been burned. It's a vivid fantasy, but it's not the most plausible scenario. Alan Weisman's The World Without Us, a sleeper hit last year, is a carefully researched look at what a depopulated...
...give our entertainment-starved families something to do on Saturday nights instead of just sitting around trying to recreate their favorite past episodes of America’s Most Wanted.Or we could just get a digital converter box.Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is an English concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears regularly...
...announcement of a "dawn raid" - the police swooping on the unsuspecting targets - might have conjured images from the Chicago of Al Capone and Eliot Ness, or from an episode of Miami Vice...