Word: antisemitisme
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Imported antiSemitism! cried Berlin's U.S.-licensed Tagesspiegel. It was protesting against the expensively produced British movie Oliver Twist, J. Ar thur Rank's cinematic hot potato which the protests of Jewish groups had kept from U.S. screens (TIME, Oct. 4). A short time later, Berliners themselves protested...
Mindszenty, the son of a poor peasant, had risen to the highest church office in his land. Some of Hungary's peasants, who used to flock together in crowds of 45,000 to hear him speak, have seen him, even in recent years, working the land at his mother...
One loud howl came from New York Star Columnist Albert Deutsch; who had seen the picture in London. Deutsch charged that "even . . . Dickens . . . could not make Fagin half so horrible," and warned that the film would fan the flames of antiSemitism. In Manhattan, the Board of Rabbis appealed to Eric...
It gives a bird's-eye view of American life in the boom year of 1929, complete with stockmarket quotations. It graphically describes the rotten, disgusting (but pretty juicy) goings-on-how every bathtub brimmed with forbidden gin; how the men, half-crazed with lust and easy money, rushed...
Everything is grist for his mill: comic strips, eating habits, dates, company picnics, pet names, bull sessions, charity drives, the State Department, foreigners, middle-aged women, vitamins, public opinion polls, antiSemitism, poker games, investment capital, psychoanalysis, the Senate and the Statue of Liberty. Much of the book is funny, some...