Word: holocaust
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...dramatic show of the week was the Omnibus version of Sophocles' Antigone, superbly directed by Sidney Lumet and beautifully played by Beatrice Straight, Philip Bourneuf and Shepperd Strudwick. The holocaust in ancient Thebes had more suspense, tension and clash of strong personalities, as well as more biting language, than TV screens have witnessed all year...
...Under such conditions one might expect the scientist to be the most secure man in our society. He holds almost ultimate power-the power of life or death. But many an American scientist is ... in moral torment. He has watched his science move from theory to human holocaust...
...interests against the people are newly coordinated and raised against me." He blasted with equal fervor his political opponents and foreign enterprises in Brazil. Only at the end did Vargas speak of death, but then his words were the sort to move men: "I offer my life in the holocaust. I choose this means to be with you always. When they humiliate you, you will feel my soul suffering at your side. When hunger beats at.your door, you will feel inside you the energy to fight for yourselves and your children . . . Each drop of my blood will be an immortal...
...papier-maché reproduction of the ancient city (for Helen of Troy) was 80% destroyed by fire. As betogaed extras battled the blaze, cameras churned away for an hour and a half, leaving Warner's hopeful that it could salvage some usable footage from a $95,000 holocaust...
...WORLD'S CHAMPION BLUNDERER, headlined the middle-of-the-road People of Lucknow, meaning the U.S. "An affront to peace," said the big Times of India. "History will not pardon her [the U.S.]" said Calcutta's conservative Amrita Bazar Patrika, "if humanity is pushed into another holocaust by her myopic politicians." But there were notable exceptions to the cries of grief and indignation. In staunchly anti-Communist Greece and Turkey, pro-government papers backed the U.S. position. In London, Beaverbrook's Daily Express raised a lone voice blaming the government for letting India "drive a wedge between...