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Rounding out the program will be a work composed in 1960 by Penderecki called Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima and Brahms's Symphony...
...United States of 1975, food is becoming scarce in many areas of the world, the desire for a return to a Golden Age of order surfaces in the editorials of small town newspapers, and the possibility of nuclear war and its aftermath has been a reality since Hiroshima. Unfortunately, the other strength of Ellison's novella, his brilliant characterization of Blood, becomes the downfall of the movie...
...Hiroshima is almost totally rebuilt now, and many of the present inhabitants were not born when the white flash blinded the city. But they still gather to remember. Some 40,000 assembled last week in the peace park, and at 8:15 a.m.-the hour at which the whale-shaped bomb dropped from the Enola Gay-a bell tolled to signal a moment of silent prayer. Men and women wept...
...never lost a moment's sleep over his decision to drop that first atomic bomb, but in the course of three decades Americans have become less certain about who their enemies are and what right the U.S. had to visit a holocaust upon the citizens of Hiroshima. At least half a dozen nations now possess the secret of nuclear destruction, and some 7,000 missiles many times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb stand ready to ravage civilization. The fact that they have not yet done so can be ascribed to many reasons, but one, surely, is that Hiroshima...
...guest book that remains in the Hiroshima atomic museum, Americans still come and confess their sense of awe. They mostly offer simple words like "Peace" and "Never again." One wrote, "I hate what we did." Another could not bring himself to record anything more than "Sorry...