Word: holocaust
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...quarters of a Virginia plantation, offer almost no new insights, factual or emotional, about the most terrible days of the black experience. Instead, there is a handy compendium of stale melodramatic conventions by which, since abolitionist days, popularizers have tried to comprehend a crime so monstrous that, like the Holocaust, it is beyond anyone's ability to re-create in intelligent dramatic terms...
...with the Nazis, who wanted the ship to sail from port to port searching for asylum. The St. Louis would then become a diplomatic liability, an embarrassment, and would be an active demonstration, according to the Nazis, of what a "problem" the Jews were. This squalid footnote to the Holocaust raises some curious questions-prominent among them is why President Franklin Roosevelt turned the St. Louis away from the shores of Florida*-and comes up way short on answers. Director Stuart Rosenberg (The Drowning Pool) and Scenarists Shagan (Save the Tiger) and Butler are primarily interested in letting the shipboard...
...incident began at about 12:40 a.m. as residents of G-31 Wigglesworth detected smoke coming from an empty bedroom, reportedly the result of an electrical malfunction. The residents of the room pulled the fire alarm, bringing the city fire department to end the would-be holocaust...
...Cuban missile crisis of 1962 that spurred U.S. and Soviet officials to install the famous Washington-Moscow "hot line." Apart from its symbolic value, they reasoned, the hot line would provide the kind of instant communication that just might help to avert nuclear holocaust...
...even Adam seem as pungently real to him as the Jews he knew as a child in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. In returning to the first Diaspora, the first murder, the first exile, Author Wiesel appears at last to have found a meaning, if not an excuse for the Holocaust he has borne witness to so brilliantly and compulsively in haunted books like One Generation After and in plays like Zalmen, or the Madness...