Word: hiroshima
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...left behind, for he was a thoughtful man who grappled with the overwhelming issues of this most overwhelming of times. There are epitaphs more ignoble that that pinned upon him by his enemies: that in the age of the trigger-happy and the tough-minded, in the age of Hiroshima and of Cuba, he thought about the issues his people faced, and hesitated, unwilling to make up his mind...
Thus Mark Van Doren opened the guests' presentation of readings from their own prose and poetry with a plea for "honoring the scruples of a fine poet who, in his own terms, was 'conscience-bound' to stay away." Author John Hersey prefaced his reading from Hiroshima with these words: "I read these passages on behalf of the great number of citizens who have become alarmed in recent weeks by the sight of fire begetting fire. Let these words be a reminder. The step from one degree of violence to the next is imperceptibly taken, and cannot...
...Hotchkiss and Yale ('36). After a postgraduate year at Cambridge, he came back to be secretary to Sinclair Lewis, then war correspondent for TIME and LIFE. His third book, A Bell for Adano, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 and was followed by the celebrated account of the Hiroshima bombing. His newest novel is White Lotus, an allegory in which white Americans are forced to experience-in a Chinese setting-the centuries-long bondage of American Negroes...
Hersey told the New York Times that "I have been deeply troubled by the drift toward reliance on military solutions in our foreign policy," but instead of following Lowell's lead he felt he could make "a stronger point "by reading from his Hiroshima...
...master of novices at Japan's Jesuit novitiate six miles outside Hiroshima. At 8:15 a.m. novitiate windows were shattered by a violent blast. Soon after, refugees began streaming from the city, and Father Arrupe made some sort of history by organizing one of the first medical supply teams ever to aid an atom-bombed city. In 1954, he was named Jesuit vice provincial for Japan, and four years later, after Japan was elevated to a full Jesuit province, became provincial...