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...glimpses I've gotten of Rusty and Andrea Yates make me think of Hannah Arendt's famous phrase "the banality of evil." Arendt's personification of such evil was Adolph Eichmann, the orderly and seemingly mild-mannered Nazi bureaucrat who helped orchestrate the killing of millions. The Yates's, too, in their own way, seemed somehow deeply and disturbingly ordinary...
...Schorr, it is work that becomes worthwhile when she sees the dedication that students involved in the festival display. “There’s a lot of reproduction work and it comes at a time when students are at their busiest and most overextended. But as Hannah Arendt wrote, the best way to anchor yourself in a chaotic world is to make and keep a promise. Even if it’s showing up on time for a rehearsal, these students keep a promise...
...year later, the group's secretary wrote a second time--this time specifically to Harvard--asking incredulously if Harvard wanted to pass up this chance at enlarging their collection (The group's secretary was none other than famed philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt...
...bookplate would ensure, according a letter from Arendt, that the "present and future readers may be reminded of those who once cherished them before they became victims of the great Jewish catastrophe...
...than to Rome. As Europe was unified under the Cross, the Jews, preserved yet ghettoized per Augustine's instructions, became the Continent's captive "other," slaughtered as a warm-up for Muslims in the First Crusade and as scapegoats during the Black Death. Whereas church historians--and philosopher Hannah Arendt in the 1950s--distinguished between Catholic anti-Judaism and the racial anti-Semitism of the 20th century, Carroll maintains that the demarcation first collapsed far earlier, when the Spanish Inquisition targeted Jewish converts to Christianity strictly on the basis of their "impure" blood...