Word: holocaustic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Danube. Half-diary and half-confession, it is a story of one man's war, but with this difference: where others wrote of battles with an end in view-victory-Johnston was an outsider, an Irish will-o'-the-wisp who happened in on the holocaust not caring-at first...
...difficult to recapture the feeling of "intellectual holocaust" into which Darwin's doctrine of evolution by natural selection plunged the world. So much the better that Stanford University's Professor William Irvine should be the man to have made the attempt. U.S. biography has become world renowned for the depth and breadth of its research, but almost invariably it has paid for its weightiness in stolid writing and lack of imagination. Author Irvine (who proved his touch in 1949 with The Universe of G.B.S.) is one U.S. biographer to show that vast masses of research can be moved...
...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...