Word: moloch
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...Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies...
...Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb...
...Note: Moloch is an archaic Semitic deity worshipped through the sacrifice of the young...
Though every hero in the book exposes him, Milton Viorst never seems to confront Moloch. Instead, he credits the success of the Movement to good liberals and dedicated reformers, and he blames the disintegration on cynical militants and radicals...
...Viorst's heroes, was not the nemesis of one war, of one minority--it was the nemesis of an entire machine, the ideals and values of America which caused the country to blunder into war, oppress peoples, and poison the environment. The Movement was out to get Moloch, the institution of dehumanization that is lighted on billboards and written on paychecks and that drafts the young to fight for vital interests and economic growth...