Word: holocaust
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...permit people, as I said, "to be let alone." If there is any notion that this can be done (as is apparent from your remark) by isolating yourself from the world community, we went through that experience and the experience we had was disastrous. It led to the tremendous holocaust where not one (I don't know what your figures are and where you got them) where not one million people were killed--if you took the figures of the Second World War it amounts to some figure that staggers the imagination. What we've got to do, what...
...real life gets worse, the movies get better. Europe may be preparing for the holocaust, and depression is corroding America, but in the hermetically sealed universe of the studios, everything is Ginger peachy. Rogers appears dressed entirely in coins, chanting cheerfully, We're in the Money. In the background, inevitably, preposterously, are the chorines drilled by Busby Berkeley, a choreographer whose work would now be called high camp. In a kaleidoscopic display of bangles and bosoms, they articulate 300 legs in unison, like a spangled centipede. With Fred Astaire, Ginger begins a cycle that lasts 16 years-from Flying...
...case after case in past years, the court answered the question by throwing out convictions for demonstrations in public places. Yet the court could not blind itself to the ominous change in civil rights protest-from early nonviolence to last year's holocaust in Watts. And a changing judicial attitude became apparent last February, when a bare majority of only five Justices reversed the convictions of Louisiana Negroes who had refused to leave a segregated public library. The sharpest dissenter was the court's stoutest liberal, Justice Hugo Black. Said he: "It has become automatic for people...
...intrigue and suspense, is more and more becoming a vehicle by which serious writers explore the wretched state of man and the cruelty of the human heart. In this bitter, brilliantly drawn book, Abraham Rothberg, historian, journalist and teacher, adopts an espionage mission as the framework for probing the holocaust that enveloped European Jewry after Hitler's rise to power...
...range and reliability would put Tokyo, Taipei, Manila, Saigon and New Delhi within Chinese striking radius (see map). But any move to strike-or blackmail-those capitals would have to take into consideration the U.S. capacity for retaliation, ranging from simple, non-nuclear bombing power, to missile-borne holocaust...