Word: erike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Professor Emeritus Erik H. Erikson will nab one of the precious parchments. Abe Beame and John Havlicek have both declined the honor this time around...
...writers of the most varied sort--psychologists, novelists and playwrights through the ages have all taken up the phrase. But no one has ever gone beyond the literary use of the term to explore just what the concept of seasons in a man's life really means. Although psychologists Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget have discovered, through intensive study and observation of children, that people go through a given sequence of developmental phases in the early years of life, no full-scale or systematic study of the entire life course has ever been attempted--until Daniel Levinson...
...drunken Nazis; in a procession of the retarded and aged, she is gassed at the euthanasia center at Hadamar. A younger son, Rudi, joins Jewish partisans fighting in the Ukraine; he survives to depart for Palestine after the war-the rebirth of European Jewry. Parallel runs the story of Erik Dorf, a prissily murderous family man and SS officer around whom nearly all the horrific deeds of genocide have been densely crowded. In these characters Green embodies the story of history's most evil episode...
...audiences can dismiss the Final Solution as the creation of a few madmen. In Holocaust, most Nazis are seemingly normal people who all too easily answer the call of a racist and fascist government. One of the show's principal characters is an intelligent lawyer and family man, Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), who rises in the SS by dreaming up "legal" justifications for the Führer's extermination program. We also meet doctors, technicians and clergymen who lend their aid to the Nazi cause. These characters, like the famous Nazi leaders who appear (Eichmann, Heydrich, Himmler...
About halfway through Holocaust, SS Henchman Erik Dorf returns home to spend a jolly Christmas singing carols with his wife and children. For Michael Moriarty, who plays Dorf, the scene was almost impossible to act. In the midst of the caroling, he bolted from the set, tears streaming down his face. "I found him sobbing, 'How can they do it? How can they do it?' " recalls Holocaust Producer Robert Berger. "The knowledge that thousands in Germany's Christian community were caroling while Jews were massacred was too much for him. He fell to pieces...