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An editorial in the liberal French daily Libération Thursday agreed, pointing out that the "the outcome in seismic catastrophes has less to do with poverty than with negligence."
If Albright's childhood is marked by the catastrophes of 20 th -century European history, her early adulthood unfolded amid the complacencies of the American '50s.
Pop had a way of putting what I thought of as catastrophes into their rightful context.
"The 'Russian miracle,' that of always avoiding catastrophes at the last moment, remains, however, fragile--more and more fragile," it said.
As an alternative to my approach, in which the growth in Holocaust memory is to be explained by the contemporary purposes it serves, you suggest a focus on the Jewish tradition of remembering catastrophes.