Word: horror
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...Palestinian suicide bombers turned a popular gathering spot for young people in the center of Jerusalem into a scene of unimaginable carnage. The nearly-simultaneous bombings in the Israeli capital killed 10 young Israelis and injured more than 100 others. The attacks can be compared in their cruelty and horror to a bombing in the center of Harvard Square on a busy Saturday night. We express our deep sympathy for the families of the Israelis killed in the attacks...
...Fuzzy,” then quickly moving on to the next random encounter. The winner was, of course, the person with the most yarn. So, with a sickening smile boiling with condescension, our host shouted “Go!” and the mass began to writhe. The horror, the horror...
...Acts of horror often find their appropriate response in works of art. In a tradition going back 2,500 years - when Euripides took the Melian massacre and spun it into the theatrical gold of The Trojan Women - artists have done what politicians and the media cannot: explain the inexplicable, make sense of the incomprehensible. Will September's disaster find its outlet in the works of today's authors and playwrights...
Thriller writer Jack (The Eagle Has Landed) Higgins begs to disagree, arguing that books that directly take on the horror of what has happened will find an audience. "We had many great novels out of World War II," he says. "People did not want to turn away from the subject. And thriller writers often deal with themes of importance and offer an educative side to popular fiction." In fact, while Higgins says that "I don't think a daring story about Afghanistan would appeal right now," he adds that he thinks world terrorism might provide a good subject for contemporary...
...look at the [World War I] poetry of Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen, one of the things they keep trying to bring out is that the language can't grasp the horror of what they've seen. You just fall back on cliché. [Sept. 11] was one of the moments that you realize how inadequate language...