Word: holocaust
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Janos Baltar, a profoundly sinuous villain, plays the snake in Simon's Garden of Eden: the spirit of holocaust inside the sanctuary...
Then two catastrophes convert Simon at an even later age than most messiahs. His parents are burned to death in their home: a token of the holocaust that consumes Jews by the millions in World War II. Simon's obsession with the cycles of buying and selling transfers to the cycles of his race: holocaust, Diaspora, and return. The total financier from the Lower East Side becomes just as totally the savior. He sets up a Society for the Rescue and Resurrection of the Jews. In 1945, he recruits survivors of Buchenwald for quite another kind of compound...
...single gravest threat to the survival of the species is the possibility of a nuclear holocaust. Such an event would necessarily upset the vital political experiments now underway in Chile, Greece and Uganda. Such an event would destroy the laboratory as well as the experiments occurring in it. In fact the only comforting thought about the possibility of a nuclear holocaust is that so little is at stake...
...themselves. One factor that unites the generations is a profound conviction-to some, perhaps, a substitute for religious faith-that their nation will survive, no matter what. Survival is the Jewish sacrament. Even the secular-minded are compelled to regard Jewish survival through millenniums of repeated exodus and holocaust as one of history's miracles. Israel is that miracle's latest and perhaps most remarkable incarnation...
...original, Hero Hugh Conway (Peter Finch) is a sort of nonpartisan lobbyist for peace who is persuaded to abandon his political pursuits in the outside world and become the Grand Kleagle of Shangri-La. There he will receive the victims of international holocaust with warmth and tolerance. That the world will be consumed by greed and violence seems an odd notion for such a soggy fantasy to be advancing; that the solution to the problem is, forget it, fix it later, is not. What does it matter if the world blows up, after all, if we have the happy valley...