Word: holocaust
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...course, Gone With the Wind. Alan Pakula's new film has much of the grandness and majestic scope of such predecessors Based on the long-time 1980 bestseller by William Styron, which attempted to make some kind of comprehensive statement about the naive American outsider and the Holocaust, the movie progresses through Poland and Auschwitz, showing clips of boxcars and starving crowds unloading for the camps, and following the heroine through years of her life...
...rest of the gluey mass in which this "argument" floats, it is equally bothersome. Timerman devotes a great deal of space to lucubrations on the relationship of Israel to the Holocaust, which he feels is inextricably tied up in Israel's militarism. Apparently, he spends a lot of time lying on a hill near Yad Vashem and comes eventually to some monumental understanding which appears either unfathomable or meaningless to lesser minds trying to get a peep...
...myself. It wasn't one of those from my interior graveyard, but the huge tombstone which covers the Jews. I could do it because it wasn't betrayal, or a subterfuge. I had discovered where to place it and how not to forget it. The country could accept the Holocaust as a measure of its destiny, not simply within the framework of remembrance and lament...
Although the new threats, Pisar stresses. Will not be of the same form as the Holocaust, they could be equally extreme. "I have lived through a pilot project for the destruction of humanity." Pisar says, "a death rattle of the species on the eve if the nuclear age. To me the nuclear arms race is a kind of specter of a planetary gas chamber...
...acknowledge that the U.S. threat to use nuclear arms in response to a Soviet assault might prevent the outbreak of war, but they nonetheless conclude that the policy is unsatisfactory because it created, and keeps in place, a balance of terror that all too easily could lead to a holocaust. They are also offended by the cost of maintaining deterrence, which they say takes money away from programs for the poor. In addition, the bishops call for a nuclear freeze, which is opposed by the Administration and many experts, who argue that it would preserve Soviet nuclear superiority. The bishops...