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...doomsday clock" was created by a group of nuclear scientists to show graphically how close they believe the world is to a nuclear holocaust. Last week the monthly Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, on the advice of 47 scientists (including 18 Nobel prizewinners), set the clock forward one minute, at three minutes before midnight. That is the closest in 30 years...
...SINCE Philip Roth introduced the neurotic, oversexed William Portnoy to the literary world, a band of literateurs has harried him. Reviewers accustomed to propriety panned the book and accused Roth of writing pornography. Zionists and orthodox Jews charged him with betraying his heritage and making a mockery of the Holocaust. Jewish mothers, appalled by what they perceived as scathing anti-Semitism, threatened to lace his chicken soup with arsenic...
Although Shamir, 68, lost most of his family in Poland during the Holocaust, he seems less traumatized than Begin about the past. Unlike Begin, he shuns the Talmudic obsession with verbal precision, concentrating instead on the practical reality that the words are meant to address. An uninspired and an uninspiring speaker, Shamir is also less divisive than Begin. He has few intimates outside his family (wife Shulamit, 60; son Yair, 38, an air force pilot, and daughter Gilada, 34). "He is sphinxlike," says Knesset Member Amnon Rubinstein. That befits a man who was a leader of the terrorist underground before...
...vanished but not vanquished world," says Roman Vishniac of the German and Eastern European Jewish communities he photographed on the eve of the Holocaust. In A Vanished World (Farrar Straus & Giroux; 180 pages; $49.95) a doomed people are brought to life. The faces are unforgettable; wide-eyed children in Hebrew schools, a wise elder peering over his glasses, a handsome singer in a Hasidic choir. Many of the pictures reflect anti-Semitic repression in pre-war Poland and Germany. In one photo, Vishniac's little daughter is posed beside a Berlin shop window displaying a demoniac device that purported...
...After was moving and dramatic, the largely ignored documentary on Cambodia was more moving, more dramatic, in every way more powerful-even if it was about a relatively small conflict, in no way comparable to a nuclear holocaust. And that was so for one simple reason: it had all really happened. One of the striking elements in The Day After was the deliberate blurring of who started the war, or what...