Word: greats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survivor of Auschwitz could find no consolation. Behind great glass containers the story of the prisoners was presented in mute detail: a room of human hair, to be used by the Reich for textiles; a room of confiscated Jewish prayer shawls. Commission members could see the gas chambers near by, but what no one could see, except the survivors in their minds' eyes, was the process of selection that led to death. A former prisoner testified in an Auschwitz guidebook: "During the selection of children, the SS men had placed a rod at the height of 1.20 meters. Children...
...monumental figures rises from a knoll. But the only evidence that Jews died here were the Hebrew words from Job, "Earth do not cover my blood," on the memorial wreath presented by the commission. Oddly, it was two non-Jews who did most to recollect the past. In his great poem, Babi Yar, Yevgeni Yevtushenko reminded his countrymen back in 1961, "I stand terror-stricken. Today I am as ancient in years as the Jewish people themselves are ... I myself am like an endless soundless cry, over these thousands and thousands of buried ones." Eighteen years later, Black Activist Bayard...
Everybody, of course, picks on Texas, and rightly so. Texas, after all, has imagined itself to be No. 1 in chauvinism ever since the days of Sam Houston, who proclaimed: "Texas could exist without the U.S., but the U.S. cannot, except at very great hazard, exist without Texas." Thanks to its flamboyant style of braggadocio, Texas is indeed among the front runners in the American art of blowing hard, excelling in what Edna Ferber called the knack of "confusing bigness with greatness." Yet the truth is that in patrician Boston the chauvinism is just as dependable, and its expression...
...Washington was an "island," but it might have been useful if he had remembered that the country is nothing but a miraculous jell of metaphysical islands. Now and then, at inaugurations and wars and such, they act like a single nation. But, day in and out, home for a great many Americans is not only where you hang your hat and scratch where it itches, but the only place on earth worth living in. - Frank Trippett
Dressed in black robes, heralded into court by bailiffs crying "Hear ye! Hear ye! All rise!" and addressed as "Your Honor," judges are imposing, even intimidating. They are supposed to be: they have great power over people's lives, and increasingly, they...