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Throughout these first years of the Third Reich, Hitler imposed a process that the Nazis called Gleichschaltung, which means standardization or making things the same. All political parties except the Nazis were banned as divisive. Leftist union leaders were arrested and replaced by Nazis preaching the harmonious unity of the...
The sociologist of religion Emile Durkheim once said that the contrast between the sacred and the profane is the widest and deepest of all contrasts that the human mind can make. In retrospect, in the churchier precincts of the memory, the election of 1960 has, for some, a numinous glow...
In last week's article "Emile de Antonio: Celluloid Villains and Heroes," Special Counsel to the Army Joseph Welch was identified incorrectly as a senator. Also, the quotation attributed to him should have read, "Have you, at long last, sir, no decency?"
Even more respected than the union leaders in those days were the lectores, or readers. Cigar workers contributed 25 cents a week to pay these so-called princes of the factories to read to them while they worked. Perched on a platform high above the cigar rollers, the lector (who...
"I enjoyed it very much," said Emile Beaulieu, mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire who also attended the seminar in 1981. "Some of the new ideas that came up this year were good."