Word: holocaustic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...team is faced with the age-old problem: that is, building a winning team out of players, the majority of whom have never seen a lacrosse stick before. To date, Pickett's warriors have a .500 record; but a 7-6 squeaker over MIT cannot offset a 20-1 holocaust at the hands of a powerful Deerfield Academy team...
...between Old City and New, and sentries-Jordan's Arabs, Israel's Jews-stand an uneasy guard. "If one of those soldiers throws a tin can at another across the wall," says a Western diplomat at the bar of the National Hotel, "it could touch off a holocaust." A travel agent sips his drink, then breaks in: "There has been no change. There has never been peace in Jerusalem...
These are figures that stagger the imagination. In no previous war, revolution* or human holocaust, either in the days of Tamerlane or in the time of Hitler, have so many people been destroyed in so short a period. Because it is hard for the mind to visualize so vast a slaughter in human terms, the Communists have been able to reap an advantage from the very size of their funeral pyre: many Westerners, finding the monstrous incredible, cannot see the blood on the hand of pretended friendship proffered by Chinese Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung...