Word: fanaticisme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"But something like collective shame has grown and remained from those times. The worst thing that Hitler did to us-and he did much to us-was that he forced us into the shame of having to bear the name of German simultaneously with his henchmen. We dare not forget...
A Workable Adjustment. The noted Lincoln biographer, James G. Randall, holds that the Civil War was the work of a "blundering generation," stirred up by "fanaticism" and "warmaking agitation." Other "revisionists," e.g., Professor Avery Craven of the University of Chicago, argue that slavery would have broken down of its own...
"Not only the style of our houses, the art of our furnishings, the clothes of our women, but our very spiritual life," wrote Father Benitez in the university's learned Review, "smells of France from every pore . . . Every year some 20,000 Argentines go through Paris, while only a...
I met Henderson in Salinas at a Joint Council of Local 78, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Workers, last summer. He resembles Elsenhower, is very charming and an excellent speaker--but he does not speak for labor. After being with him in saloons and at council tables I decided he was...
In an age when the imagination has been darkened by the horrors of the concentration camps, this simple, scrupulous man is an imaginative achievement. His genuine anguish when he fails to work the miracle very nearly wrecks the novel; his concentrated and intelligent fanaticism certainly spoils the aloof ironic tone...