Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would think that after Dachau, Auschwitz, Manson and the Gulag, the desire of man to kill, maim and torture [Aug. 16] would have been satisfied. Obviously not. The truth has displayed the most horrifying fact of our civilization. Man is still a prisoner of the warped instincts of his mind. No triumph of medicine, culture or knowledge can wipe out that reality...
Once, in a certain country, there lived a great sage named Bruno Bettelheim. Rich in experience, wise beyond his 72 years, Dr. Bettelheim had survived the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald to become the most celebrated child psychologist of his time. He had written of autism in infants and prejudice in adults, of social change and mental unbalance, and each book had become a classic. Now he turned his searching intelligence upon a rich and neglected topic: the fairy tale...
...Ford Administration may be less favorably inclined toward Israel than its predecessors. In big ads in the New York Times and the New York Post, the local chapter of the United Jewish Appeal has warned Jews that "the price of silence was the Warsaw ghetto. Bergen-Belsen. Auschwitz. Dachau. Buchenwald...
Died. George Stevens, 70, American film director, of an apparent heart attack; in Lancaster, Calif. Stevens confected a series of comedies and melodramas in the 1930s, among them Swing Time, A Damsel in Distress and Gunga Din. His bitter wartime experiences (filming the scenes of Dachau death camp used at the Nuremberg trials) deepened his vision. Stevens' masterworks, Shane, Giant and A Place in the Sun, have become classic incarnations of American legend...
...consideration, then and now, sought to avoid polarization and to capitalize on a "community of purpose." "Something for everyone" is ambitious, but not to be taken lightly. Worth a try? One can recite a veritable litany of negative polarizations which has beset this planet in the last 30 years--Dachau through red-baiting; "flower children" through the movement against the violence of war; the struggle of minorities toward human dignity and now the "war of the sexes" which could be the biggest bag of all since it involves one half the human race vs. the other half. There...