Word: holocaust
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Bono placed a particular emphasis on the "everyday holocaust that is Africa," which he described as "the biggest health threat since the bubonic plague wiped out one-third of Europe...
...years in Iowa City produced a doctorate in music for Hollister--as well as his wife's favorite piece of his music. She says Corronach, a work for string symphony prompted by Hollister's reading about the Holocaust, is unique for Hollister because of its "dark, gestural" character...
...inadvertent bookends explore the Holocaust from its deceptively mundane beginning to a heretofore unstaged end. Conspiracy re-enacts the 90-minute meeting in which silky-voiced SS bureaucrat Reinhard Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh) gently bullies a roomful of Nazi functionaries into accepting the Final Solution as a fait accompli. A bloodless yet brutal testament to the violence of euphemism and groupthink--eerily indistinguishable from any middle managers' meeting--it is the banality of evil brought unignorably to life...
...University of California at Santa Barbara as an instructor in a class on the Vietnam War run by Walter Capps, a religious-studies professor who would later serve a term in Congress. When they first met, Kerrey asked if Capps had ever read Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust writer. Capps said he had. "Then you know that when an event is unspeakable, it takes a while to learn the right words," Kerrey said. Capps, who died in 1997, recalled that in his first lecture, Kerrey ended with a startling comment: it's more difficult to kill for your country than...
...then, collateral damage has even aspired to achieve an extermination. The Holocaust represented the ultimate infliction of the form. Tribes less well organized than the Germans (Serbs and Croats, Hutu and Tutsi) conduct raggedy versions of a similar ethnic malevolence...