Word: envelopment
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...mankind, and, indeed, Lifton draws comparisons between hibakusha and the survivors of the plagues of the Middle Ages. But, he says, the man-made holocausts of the 20th century have imposed a series of real and symbolic encounters with death on a scale so huge as to envelop people with a generalized psychic numbness...
...World War III involving the limitless legions of China backed by the enormous firepower of Soviet Russia," declared South Dakota's George McGovern. "I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which sooner or later will envelop my son and American youth by the millions...
Even more significant, the pictures showed no evidence of the thick and treacherous layer of dust that many astronomers and physicists have predicted might envelop vehicles landing on the moon's surface. Said Astronomer Kui per, who at times during the past several years has stood nearly alone in insisting that there is little or no lunar dust: "There was never any basis for believing it anyway, but the idea seemed to fascinate people in the same way as flying saucers." The surface of the Ocean of Storms, Kuiper said, seemed to have been formed by lava flow during...
MARAT/SADE shreds the nerves, flays the skin and vivisects the psyche. In a display of directorial virtuosity, Peter Brook has expanded Playwright Peter Weiss's metaphor of the world as a madhouse, and the superb Royal Shakespeare players envelop the playgoer in a disturbing, enthralling theatrical experience...
...Santo Domingo is a volcano that is going to envelop all Latin America in flames!" shrilled Rafael Tavera, 26, a leader of the Dominican Republic's Castroite 14th of June Movement. In the war-weary city's rebel zone last week, there was a celebration to observe the sixth anniversary of an abortive June 14, 1959, invasion from Castro's Cuba. And before a howling, rifle-waving crowd of 10,000, Tavera spewed hatred at the U.S. "There will not be peace until the last invader is destroyed and the last Yankee property is seized," he cried...