Radiation turned it white
And killed it in an hour.
Greasing the bodies of adulterers
Like Hiroshima ash and eating in.
The sin. The sin..."
The above is an excerpt from "Fever 103," a Sylvia Plath poem we'll be reading later in the semester. What current primetime television tells me is how it might be a long while before the "fever" unleashed by the dawning of the atomic age subsides to a mere simmer. Still it unceasingly grips the public imagination, and I wonder what about TV as a space for fictional storylines and characters (which could be said about novels, films, etc.) allows us to dream apocalypse. Just a few clips from several shows (which I, with my head hanging low in embarassment, have yet to see):
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Oh, and a hearty welcome to all students, families and friends of students as well as peers and colleagues in the academic community.
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