Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smoking Volcano. Even as they conferred, Defense Minister Nasution was preparing a purge of all Communists in the armed services, and there was dark talk of a sweeping decree banning the Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.). Under army pressure, Parliament suspended all its 57 Communist members. And as Yao yelped, 100,000 Moslem students attacked the Red Chinese consulate in Medan on Sumatra, tore down its flag, and howled "Chinese Go Home" for an hour...
...field of action "where ignorant armies clash by night." And it is another commonplace that the classic hero simply does not and cannot exist any more. The above comparison with Herzog was applicable in this sense: the anti-heroes of books like Herzog and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano are characterized by their in-ability to live nobly. The armies cannot be clearly defined; the heroes achieve their peculiar grandeur by their half-futile attempts to avoid the degradation of being a member of a degraded society. They are "healthy" because they are sickened by a sick society...
...does Kazantzakis, so obviously and self-consciously a "modern man," avoid the numbing dilemma of men like Matthew Arnold and fictional figures like Herzog? For one thing, he achieves nobility by immersing himself in a noble tradition. The Consul in Under the Volcano, for example, may be one of the many examples of a man "alienated" from society but the hero of Report to Greco is a descendant of generations of proud Cretans and a son of the ancient island of Crete. It is no accident that the author begins the prologue with Cretan soil in his hand and ends...
Alan King, one of the pooh-bahs of show biz, plays the psychiatrist with two alternating expressions. He pops his eyes like the late Benito Mussolini, and he breaks into a slow-burn grin like a pregnant volcano. This gives him wice the comic range of the play...
...clear and blue, and in its center rises a 984-ft.-high island, which has its own interior lake, Lake Bonbon. To tourists, Bonbon provides a particular thrill-a look into the eye of a giant killer. For the island in Taal is, in fact, the shell of a volcano, and Lake Bonbon its submerged core, the result of a mighty eruption in 1911 that killed 1,335 people. Since that holocaust, Taal had hardly bubbled out a smoke ring, and some 2,000 Filipinos in four villages made its slopes home...