Word: holocaust
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...George's 1958 novel Red Alert, then enlisted George and Co-Scenarist Terry Southern to help transmogrify that straightforward suspense yarn. By heightening the already striking surreality of mere humans blundering through a maze of buzzers, lighted dials, threat boards, hot lines and early warning systems toward world holocaust, Kubrick shot for a "nightmare comedy" and made...
...small chance became thundering reality in Texas City in 1947, when two shiploads of ammonium nitrate fertilizer blew up in the harbor, setting off fires and further explosions that killed 512 people, wounded more than 3,500. The dreary legal aftermath of that holocaust is recalled in a new study of Government liability by Columbia University's Legislative Drafting Research Fund, which points out that Texas City victims waited nine years for their first penny of Government compensation. After the Supreme Court ruled they could not collect under the Tort Claims Act, a special act of Congress allowed them...
...were to a large extent cries of anguish, not against a particular people but in behalf of all mankind. Ghostly "stickmen"-men that were no longer men-populated his world; and in his tortured oils, the hell that was always next to him burned with the intensity of a holocaust. Whereas he once demol ished individuals with a few lines, he now loaded his palette with the colors of doom. Memories of My Mother got its title after it was finished, when Grosz learned that his mother had disappeared without a trace in a bombing raid on Germany. What Grosz...
...moral cant of the bourgeois mind, which condemns in others the vices it refuses to acknowledge in itself. Lulu's actual death is horrifying; she is disemboweled by Jack the Ripper in a London garret. At this event, Berg's music erupts in an agonizing holocaust of atonal sound, the musical equivalent of the howl of the blinded Oedipus...
...commend you for your article [July 12] on Martin Buber. I feel that your words on the subtly profound philosophy of Buber, indicating that his life's thought might have a definite, here-and-now influence on the chances of Homo sapiens' continuing existence this side of holocaust, were complete, lucid, and maybe even eloquent...