Word: abjection
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...though the shock of the war had left a different imprint upon everyone it touched. The only real point of contact between the French woman and the Japanese architect lies in their hatred of the war, a hatred arising from two completely different ideas of what the war was. Abject terror, however, is the overwhelming constituent of both views, and Hiroshima Mon Amour, is above anything else, an attempt to instill that terror in a populace which has built the new Hiroshima and has forgotten, or never experienced the destruction...
...been a frequent guest. Cornu first explained haltingly that he had not really been Jaccoud's "friend," and that their relationship had always been "professional." Looking at the emaciated defendant, Cornu then charged that "this charming, intelligent, celebrated lawyer, this great man of politics, was an abject criminal who shot and stabbed a defenseless...