Word: elson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Elson...
...such magazines as the Atlantic and the New Yorker has earned Adair in recent years a coterie of fans (other poets notable among them). One dazzled critic (Eric Ormsby) has called her "the best American poet since Wallace Stevens." "Adair is less gnomic than Stevens," says TIME's John Elson, "more passionately personal; even on dark themes, her writing, like his, has the elegant fizz of brut champagne." One terrible night in 1968 Douglass Adair, then a teacher at the Claremont colleges, walked into their bedroom and killed himself. His widow's agony and incomprehension, in poems reflecting lost love...
...charges near the end of the war. "Hitler's Willing Executioners' is bound to be severely criticized -- at least in Germany -- since it confronts the postwar alibi that average citizens of the Third Reich either did not know about the Holocaust or disapproved of it," says TIME's John Elson. "Some historians may also question whether anti-Semitism, while prevalent in pre-Hitler Germany, was as viciously eliminationist as the author argues." Elson notes that the 19th century English writer Lord Acton believed that historians should be hanging judges, exercising their right to condemn the sins of the past...
...John Elson...