Word: holocaustal
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REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST...
...heady promise of peace had already been submerged by the cold war: the specter of Soviet subversion, real and imagined, at home; the threat of nuclear holocaust ominous enough to send schoolchildren diving under their desks at a teacher's practice command. (I remember studying an aerial photo of New York City, on which concentric circles described the effects of an H-bomb blast over the Empire State Building, and feeling a sense of doom that I lived four blocks inside the zone of vaporization...
...heart of Rohinton Mistry's monumental new novel lie questions as essential as breathing. How can hope and dignity be maintained in the face of daily atrocity? And atrocity that comes not with the sudden violence of a Holocaust but in a steady, relentless drip-drip-drip of degradation and disappointment. What is the price of forbearance in the challenging of injustice, and when does stoicism turn into fatalism? Cities like Bombay are routinely given tags like "City of Hope" or "City of Dreadful Night"; Mistry digs beneath the comfort of such abstractions to a level of complexity where murderers...
...Jews now have a safe haven and are being protected by their own? Why were there no pictures of squadrons of Israeli Air Force jets--the guardians of liberty who defend the right of a people to live on a daily basis? We do the victims of the Holocaust a tremendous injustice in failing to extol and elevate the achievements of the Jewish state in the past 48 years at the same time that on this day of remembrance, Yom Hashoah, we recall the ultimate sacrifices of the martyrs of the Holocaust...
...dismayed yesterday to observe the disgraceful nonchalance with which some passerby in the Science Center gave the posters commemorating the Holocaust nothing more than a cursory glance. "I already know enough about the Holocaust," they seemed to say. (As if the ignominy of the Holocaust could conceivably be overstated!) I couldn't help marvelling at some of the expressionless faces of the passersby that walked on, unmoved by the nameless faces peering out at their from behind the electrified barbed wire. There was tremendous irony in the quote on one poster which doubtless many did not even stop to read...