Word: auschwitzes
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...pogroms and the 6 million dead in the Holocaust. There are many centuries in that line. Begin claims that as the Israeli dispensation. That is the moral capital of world Jewry, cataclysmically acquired. Do not presume to discuss suffering and death with a people that has passed through Auschwitz. Yes. On the other hand, the Begin government's statement suggests clearly that 1) it has nothing left to learn on the subject of ethics and respect for human life, which is demonstrably not true, and 2) it is certainly not for the rest of the world, meaning, implicitly...
...Lebanon, is now prepared to meet the man who initiated the latter, and is trying to complete the Nazis' mission." The Vatican took the rare step of handing out a press communique branding the Israeli charges "an insult to the truth" and noting that John Paul, at Auschwitz hi 1979, had condemned Nazi genocide...
...possible to look back on events more dispassionately. Mitterrand's "radical elements" theory seems to hold water. Police have since dug up evidence linking the restaurant assassins to a PLO splinter group even more extreme in its demands than PLO leader Yassin Arafat. Simone Weil, a former minister and Auschwitz survivor has explained. "I truly do not believe the French are anti-Semitic. There are people in the world trying to destabilize our democracies. In France, Jews are the most obvious target...
...Taylor's play is how and why. How does a seemingly decent, liberal-minded man like Haider, who lectures on the German classics at the University of Frankfurt, and whose best friend Maurice (Joe Melia) is a Jewish psychoanalyst, wage a retreat from conscience that finds him at Auschwitz as the right-hand man of Adolf Eichmann (Nicholas Woodeson...
...lots of those who read William Styron's haunting, often wildly funny Sophie's Choice, there was but one actress for the title role in the film version: Meryl Streep, 33. To the delight of armchair casting directors everywhere, Streep is indeed playing Sophie, the Polish-Catholic Auschwitz survivor, resettled in postwar Brooklyn. Nathan, her neurotic, libidinous lover, is played by Kevin Kline, 34, the pirate king in the upcoming film The Pirates of Penzance. Kline is another nice bit of casting since, when she was reading the book, he was Streep's choice...