Word: holocaust
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...brush wars" fought in Western Europe with conventional arms, they will be at the mercy of the overwhelming Soviet ground forces. Furthermore, they fear that by committing Western defense to nuclear weapons, the West will be compelled to take the initiative in using such forces, thereby precipitating a suicidal holocaust...
Yonkers said that the fire was still dangerous to the town of Petersham until it should rain. He added that there had been no precipitation for two weeks and that "Everybody is praying for rain." Yonkers called Tuesday's holocaust "the biggest fire in the history of Petersham and the Harvard Forest." Petersham has a population of 850 and is surrounded by woods...
...world. They create a world of beauty and intensity, to escape from that world which neither wants them, heeds them, nor can benefit from them. One will no doubt accuse them of fiddling while Rome burns--but perhaps they will create a little music before being consumed in the holocaust. Richard Zaffron...
...plane that catches Sam's eye at the opening of the story. The choice between destruction and survival is implicit even in the work of the foundation, which divides its time between charity for true education and the preparation of the Disaster Clinic for a possible holocaust. And Morrison suggests that as time runs out for men, so it may run out for our civilization, unnoticed until too late. But for all this, the education of Sam Norris ends in no new knowledge beyond the old lessons of human tolerance. Though it may seem unsatisfactory, "It takes all kinds...
...Original dramatic ideas come so rarely to TV that they deserve better treatment than The Ninth Day got from Playwrights Dorothy and Howard Baker last week on Playhouse 90. For more than half its length, the play was up to the idea. Seventeen years after a nuclear holocaust, the last hope of propagating the race lies in the-only two teen-agers of eight survivors on a California hilltop. After bickering through childhood like brother and sister, the boy (John Kerr) and the girl (surprisingly well played by Piper Laurie) are pressed, balking and shying, into marriage. The wedding preparations...