Word: hiroshima
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...editorials* suggested that The New Yorker is changing, that it is taking a new interest in serious issues. Mild-mannered Editor William Shawn almost sighs at the idea. He heard the same reaction when an issue of the magazine was given over to John Hersey's documentary on Hiroshima in 1946; when it carried Rachel Carson's warning against contamination. Silent Spring, in 1962; when it ran Richard Harris' analysis of the Justice Department last year. And he has heard it on many other occasions, including the aftermath of editorial attacks on President Johnson over Viet...
That instant of military glory unalloyed was the last in the nation's memory. The horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki accompanied the defeat of Japan. Korea turned into an unpopular, slogging stale mate. Viet Nam has divided the nation and stained the military's proud escutcheon...
...country in the history of the world. A few years ago, there were 3 million people in Laos. Now there are somewhat below 2.5 million. For a little comparison, straight from Kurt Vonnegut, America killed 135,000 Germans at Dresden, 83,793 Japanese in Tokyo, and 71,379 at Hiroshima...
...angelic demons that end Fellini's Toby Dammit and La Dolce Vita, Daria is threatened by infantile gang rape and escapes fast, horrified at 'these mutants removed from society by a friend of hers. They inhabit America's barren unclear-testing-ground country, children of a social and cultural Hiroshima, like those of Losey's film These Are The Damned. The sequence ends with Daria driving out of frame; the camera lingers, tracking into the Bar window and setiling elegautly on a stunning image of fossilized American Past, Daria has passed-by two extremes of living death, and approaches...
...diplomat in Asia suggests that Japan may be the first nation to score a breakthrough?a superpower without superweapons. Almost certainly, however, a nuclear-armed China will eventually persuade Japan to exorcise its post-Hiroshima trauma and begin building its own nukes. Unlike Peking, Tokyo has a head start toward a delivery system; two weeks ago, the Japanese became the fourth member of the exclusive space club (others: the U.S., the Soviet Union and France) by putting a 20-lb satellite into orbit from a launch pad on Kyushu Island...