Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solid hope for preventing the use of atomic energy for destruction on a scale that has not yet been disclosed is for peoples everywhere to come to understand . . . this new critter, the atom, and what it holds for evil and for good . . . and to understand thereby the opportunities that lie before...
Niemöller's reason: "Hundreds of thousands yield under constant pressure to the temptation to wash their hands of guilt by any conceivable lie or distortion . . . and the newly sown seed of hatred has grown rapidly...
Somehow, though, all this is never more than partly successful. Once in a while, glimmerings of the Myth shine out, but more often the reader is too tangled up in meandering and philosophizing to grasp the insights that always seem to lie just below the surface of comprehension. Lockridge's peculiar arrangement of incidents is of little help. For some reason, he has invented an annoying little stunt of running together the last sentence of an episode in 1892 with the first few words in a flashback sequence. Perhaps this ties the two together in the reader's mind...
...household chanted their leader's favorite Hindu song: "Dress yourself in rich attire, befitting the occasion, because you are now to go to your beloved's haven. You will have to lie on the bare earth, cover yourself with dust and ultimately become one with the dust. Have your bath and dress properly. Remember you are not to come back from where you are going...
Below him will lie the great mirror, like a pool of still black water dimly sprinkled with stars. Around him will flow the starlight, down to the mirror and up to the "prime focus" of the telescope (see drawing), a rectangular hole in a tablelike structure in front...