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...that consciousness was hard to come by. Public discussion of the fate of European Jewry was considered counterproductive. The Office of War Information, for instance, advised movie producers not to mention the genocide. The O.W.I. had surveys showing substantial anti-Semitism in the U.S. Better, it thought, to play the Nazis in traditional enemy style, as geopolitical bullies. This avoidance was true everywhere in the culture. Ben Hecht, the screenwriter, wrote a pageant depicting the extermination of 2 million Jews--an accurate figure as of 1943. It was officially shunned, marginalized. "This generational thing is s____," says Robert Kotlowitz, noting...
...with the attack. Only one, 1970's Tora! Tora! Tora!, sought to be painstakingly faithful to the facts--no love story add-on--and for this it paid dearly, and is remembered as one of the great big-budget turkeys of all time. Pearl Harbor, banking on a different fate, is Hollywood, not history, at heart. Nothing wrong with that, but it is good to set the record straight on a few things before they become part of the accepted story...
First-year law student Faisal I. Chaudhry, second-year Ashwini Sukthankar, second-year Fatma E. Marouf and third-year Aaron D. Bartley were present at the six-and-a-half hour long public hearing deciding their disciplinary fate. More than 50 people attended, including faculty members, alumni, dining hall workers and a representative from the United Ministry...
...physicians believe that by then it may have already been too late to save Nkosi. But most South African AIDS patients are so poor that their only hope of survival is free access to treatment drugs through the public health system. And Nkosi himself might have eluded his fate had his mother had access, during pregnancy, to AZT and other treatments known to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus...
...sets his agenda in the first panel, writing, "How to successfully be an ARTIST (not be confused with 'becoming a successful artist')." By the second panel he's already cleverly amended the first statement by revealing one of his Bargains with Fate, "I will only lie in the service of Truth." This typically sly-humored, blink-and-you'll-miss-it juxtaposition makes Campbell's work one of the subtlest pleasures...