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...years of fighting that followed constitute one of the grimmest episodes in modern European history. Military campaigns of unparalleled ferocity led to enormous casualties on both sides, usually for little or no strategic gain. Saturation bombing campaigns and continuous artillery bombardments of cities gave the world its first views of "total" war involving civilian populations. The war became a testing ground for the weapons and strategies of World War II. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy used the Spanish war to perfect the Stuka dive bomber and the tactics of incendiary bombing that in one day destroyed the town of Guernica...
Very much a product of the holocaust, Kosinski imagined and reimagined with every new novel a world of the grimmest desolation. When his novels have lived, it has never been by virtue of any particular humanity or warmth. At his best, Kosinski is a novelist of terror: The Painted Bird and Steps were catalogues of lurid atrocities, accounts of sadism, bestiality, and so forth, every one more horrible than the last. Kosinski's precise, emotionless prose didn't just render those atrocities in all their harsh reality; it became a part of the horror, inhuman beyond mere colorlessness. Kosinski...
...grimmest news was that the unemployment rate climbed from 8.9% in April to 9.2% in May, yet another new high since 1941. That meant 8.5 million Americans were out of work, a jump of 360,000 from April. Administration officials acknowledge that unemployment could continue to swell in June and July. One reason: millions of students are about to flood the market in search of summer work (see story page...
...Jersey, where he is wanted on suspicion of Fasching's murder. But first the victims of the New Jersey crimes will face Kallinger and Michael in a line-up this week. If their identification is positive, the saga of the Kallingers of Kensington will take its grimmest turn...
...grimmest sign of all, however, reported TIME'S Jerusalem correspondent Marlin Levin, is open discussion, by both military and political leaders, about the possible necessity of a preemptive strike against Arab armies. The rationale for such an attack would be to cripple Arab forces for five to ten years...