Word: holocaust
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...aside. Piled around him now are the Koran, a Bible, books on technology and a stack of Left Behind books. When Mead predicts that our century will be remembered as the Age of Apocalypse, he does not mean to suggest that the world will soon end in a fiery holocaust. "The word apocalypse," he observes, "comes from a Greek word that literally means 'lifting of the veil.' In an apocalyptic age, people feel that the veil of normal, secular reality is lifting, and we can see behind the scenes, see where God and the devil, good and evil are fighting...
...girlfriend told him she wanted to return to Europe, Davis accompanied her, first to France, where they married, and then to Germany. Davis produced a documentary for Britain's BBC about three generations of Jewish families in Germany. It proved an emotional experience for Davis, whose mother was a Holocaust survivor. "My mother thought I was getting private reparations somehow, because everything of hers was lost," Davis recalls. "It was a real catharsis...
...Holocaust, Cambodia and Rwanda have all caused us to rethink the laws of war,” Ryan said. “My whole course is about trying to get beyond their very obvious dissimilarities...
...David B.'s "Epileptic" rivals Art Spiegelman's "Maus," for it's tour de force of comix-making. Though "Epileptic" lacks the heightened drama of the holocaust, these two-volume works have many noticeable parallels. Both use the plight of a stricken family member to fuel a story that goes back and forth in time, examining the repercussions on the author. Both have a deeply-informed sense of personal history within the context of world events and culture, making sense of the relationship between the two. Lastly, both use the medium of comics to further the meaning of the work...
...book's most chilling moments it finds ways to remind them of the consequences of that excess in a way that an American city never could. When Gurney peeks below that cute cobblestoned surface, he finds the ravages of communism, and beneath them, the horrors of the Holocaust...