Word: holocaust
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...With holocaust literature continually flooding the market and literally forming a genre of its own, great attention has been paid to the phenomenon of survivor's guilt. Elie Weisel gave the issue moving treatment in his widely acclaimed novel Night, and most recently, William Styron examined the trauma of a mother forced to determine the fate of her children in Sophie's Choice. It should come as no surprise therefore that as a Jewish initiate into the world of fiction, Sheila Levin attempts to join the ranks of the guilt-ridden with her first novel, Simple Truths...
Another possibility is that there is a second, seldom articulated assumption of U.S. strategic policy--that America is a superpower capable of launching nuclear holocaust, and that we intend to remain one. The United States justifies a credible first-strike force--and its unwillingness to renounce the first use of nuclear weapons--as necessary to keep the vastly more powerful Soviet conventional forces at bay in Europe and elsewhere...
...before, the bishops' committee condemns the first use of nuclear weapons by any nation, although NATO relies on having that option to fend off superior fleets of Soviet tanks and conventional forces. The panel believes that any use of nuclear arms would quite likely bring on the holocaust. The bishops also continue to endorse a bilateral nuclear freeze, which is opposed by the White House. Responding to Administration arguments, the bishops make some minor concessions: giving more recognition to U.S. disarmament efforts and leveling more criticism at the Soviets for their belligerent stance...
...shards of this experience, Appelfeld, now a renowned Israeli novelist, has composed a tale of appalling symmetry. Among Appelfeld's many novels and stories of the Holocaust (Badenheim 1939, The Age of Wonders), Tzili best exemplifies Kafka's bitter aphorism, "The arrows fit exactly in the wounds they have made...
...misinformed may talk as long as the informed." History is not the MacNeil-Lehrer Report either. Should one grit one's teeth and recite the First Amendment when, say, American Nazis decide to march in a Chicago suburb (Skokie) inhabited by many Jews who survived the Holocaust? Suppose that a man (William Shockley) wishes to tour American lecture halls suggesting that blacks are inherently inferior to whites...