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...sleepy and frightened, refused to comply with the demand. But a forester named Joseph Cohen, 48, opened his door?and was immediately cut down by automatic-weapons fire. His son Eliahu, 4, was also killed, and his daughter Miriam, 5, wounded. His wife Fortuna, seven months pregnant, tried to flee the intruders, but was machine-gunned. The only one in the family not killed or wounded was 16-month-old Yitzhak Cohen. He never attracted attention by crying; he is a deaf-mute...
...similar, and the music also the focal point, the 44 minutes of A Well Spent Life, which precede The Harder They Come for this final week at the Orson Welles, are completely transporting in a different way. Instead of journeying to some never-never land of commercial spirituality, we flee to a real place at a real time. Les Blank's documentary visits the ancient home of bluesman Mance Lipscomb in the East Texas cotton country, weaving the music and the sharecropping way of life into a whole strain of U.S. history. Admittedly, dignity sits easy on the shoulders...
...Nazis and the Jews--the Zionist leaders failed to warn the victims and attempted to suppress Vrba's report. In return for this service, Adolf Eichmann, the administrator of the deportation process, allowed about 1600 people, largely wealthy Jews, relatives of the Zionist leaders or prominent Zionists, to flee to Switzerland. The result of this agreement was the death of nearly half a million Hungarian and Slovakian Jews. The deportations stopped only after Vrba succeeded, on his own, in having the report read by important Allied officials and published in Swiss newspapers...
...very tantalizing--or is it? Such a ridiculous attempt to flee, rather than confront, the unequivocal fact of death is merely one more manifestation, claims David Hendin, of this single remaining taboo; a taboo being bombarded, however, by an army of books, articles, monographs and courses on the subject. Hendin calls his contribution "A realistic look at the medical and emotional aspects of death." It is an unpretentious, informative and honestly sensitive confrontation with some eyebrow-raising facts...
...major figure of 52 per cent of blacks at Harvard on the dean's list compared to 82 per cent of all other ethnics still stands). There has been surprisingly little attention drawn to his elitist model. Most criticisms of Kilson's analysis are, in essence, attempts to flee from analysis while ideologizing the flight. They dwindle into psychoanalytic amateurism--futile attempts to explain the content of the articles by the disposition of the author via a crude sociology of knowledge. Such responses hold no intellectual weight and only tricialize the issues. The past decade has hopefully taught us that...