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According to America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference, an accusatory, tweaked-up documentary that aired on PBS last week, the watchful do-nothings included high officials of the U.S. government. The 90-minute program, part of the "American Experience" series, was based partly on The & Abandonment of the Jews (1984) by David S. Wyman, who appeared on camera as a commentator. The documentary echoes charges in Wyman's book that State Department bigots tried to suppress accounts of the genocide from gaining a wide audience and that they blocked Jewish refugees from entering the U.S. America and the Holocaust...
Wars. plagues, revenge, deceit, scheming, plotting, matricide, patricide, adultery--you name it, the Bible had it. I think I must have missed the religious significance entirely. I knew one thing for sure though--the Jews were cool. As long as you stuck with them it didn't matter how much those Gentiles thought they were getting away with--God was gonna getchya...
...dynamic o the travelling Barrow robber gang is also a fantastic exploration in love, friendship and trust. The trust that keeps the group going and the deceit that is their ultimate demise is a reminder that youth, and excitement (and ultimately any moment) are never everlasting. The viewer realizes the partnership between Bonnie and Clyde is only as strong as fortuitous circumstance allows. "Bonnie and Clyde" bears this "carpe-diem" message in a most vibrant, electric...
Genet emerges as a difficult personality, to say the least. Politically irresponsible and personally prickly, he made his life a tribute to the virtues of treachery, deceit and inconsistency. This singularity is best expressed in his remark, "I had to work hard to betray my friends, but in the end it was worth it." White's book effectively presents the man expressed in that sentiment--the almost monastic attention to artistic craft, the lonely pride in being irreducibly different...
...speech, if that speech is deemed offensive by any victim group. And in place of the assumption that America represents the highest aspirations of mankind is a conviction that the U.S. was, and to a considerable degree still is, an oppressor nation, its history a chronicle of injustice and deceit. Some conservative critics point to p.c. and multicultural rhetoric as proof that the American campus is the last bastion of Marxism. Much p.c. analysis is indeed tinged with scorn for capitalism and its correlative, the proverbial marketplace of ideas. But the movement has more to do with the social contract...