Word: hiroshima
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...race was at odds with a growing undercurrent of disillusion about man's ability to transform either himself or his world. A Teilhard de Chardin might confidently view man's physical and spiritual evolution in the new scientific world as a limitless upward spiral, but Hitler and Hiroshima suggested that the spiral could also spin downward into new dimensions of evil...
...French colonial city of yellow stucco buildings, scrupulously clean streets lined with lichee, pine and tamarind trees. There is heavy bomb damage on the outskirts of the city, especially near the airport. But despite the repeated U.S. air raids, I saw little sign of destruction. Hanoi is certainly no Hiroshima...
...hope that Bess never has to read that book, because a glance at the joltings showed that many persons used its availability to put on record the anti-bombing sentiments they were nowhere else allowed to express. "Hiroshima=Hanoi" and "Nixon, would you let this happen to Tricia?" are only two samples of the vitriol...
...survive after near annihilation is to acquire a special knowledge of death that transforms life forever after. So believes Robert Jay Lifton, the Yale psychiatrist who titled his famed 1967 study of the Hiroshima survivors Death in Life. Few behavioral scientists have studied plane-crash survivors; after all, there have not been very many. But Lifton and some of his colleagues believe that the men and women who have lived through air disasters have something in common with those who emerged alive from the atomic holocaust...
...Vietnamese have always negotiated "seriously" and have repeatedly stated their willingness to sign the nine-point treaty negotiated last fall. Blum fails to mention the simple fact that it was the U.S. government that suddenly imposed new conditions for settlement and resorted to tactics reminiscent of Guernica and Hiroshima to brutally exact those concessions...