Word: holocaust
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...never clear what holocaust has preceded the time the memoirs recall. The old order is rapidly disintegrating, young children as well as adults must adapt to a world of food shortages and wandering gangs, of fear and confusion. There are no guides for behavior. The struggle is only to survive: old moral structures are anachronistic, love is accidental. The memories are those of an elderly woman who is caught in the new world, unsure of her ability to adapt. Because she can remember the past, she sees her present objectively, aware of its insanity yet unable to pass judgement because...
...children become adults in spite of the holocaust, and Emily's development becomes the main focus of the novel. The narrator can only watch helplessly as Emily readies herself to take her place in the world outside, where the struggle to survive has become steadily more intense. Finally she becomes "the woman" of the leader of one of the packs of adolescents who room the city looking for food, and begins to explore areas she has previously avoided--friendship, love and responsibility for other human beings...
Since the Nazi Holocaust, which wiped out one-third of the world's Jews, "Jewish survival" has been a slogan that encompasses a number of issues. Besides support for Israel and Soviet Jewry, the concept includes attempts to counteract losses through secularization and intermarriage of Jews with Gentiles. Another, and some say the greatest threat to Jewish survival is being increasingly talked about: the trend among modern Jews to have small families. In the U.S., for example, enrollment in synagogue classes and day schools has declined by roughly one-fourth since 1965, owing largely to the falling Jewish birth...
...nuclear genie stubbornly refuses to return to its lamp. International conferences and agreements have tried to stem the spread of atomic weapons, but the nightmare of potential nuclear holocaust persists. Recent events, in fact, suggest that the dangers from nuclear proliferation and the atomic arms race are probably greater now than at any time since the first mushroom cloud rose over New Mexico's desert near Alamogordo three decades ago. Last week, for instance, West Germany agreed to sell Brazil facilities and technology that could enable Brasilia to develop nuclear arms. Meanwhile, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
King Lear. This awesome drama sometimes seems to combine the four elements of the ancient world-earth, air, fire and water. The elements are not in their benign aspect, however, but viciously, terrifyingly distempered: earth as earthquake, air as hurricane, fire as holocaust and water as raging flood. What this production gives us is fallow earth, becalmed air, sputtering fire and stagnant water...