Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the Allied victory put a stop to her film production. Since then, Adolf's admiration has hung on her neck like the Mariner's albatross. Through one denazification court after another, Leni has fought off her past. Time & again she has been cleared of Nazi guilt, only to be rearrested and retried. Last week, in a final effort to regain her fair name-and the fashionable Berlin villa taken from her by the Allies-Leni appeared before still another court. Its verdict on Leni: "No political activity in support of the Nazi regime which would warrant punishment...
...wife, who has never told him what really happened, but he also knows that Davidson has been wronged. The real kick for the reader comes not from the smooth, credible unraveling of the case, but from the tensions that mount as Author Clewes unlocks the hiding place of human guilt...
...several members of active leftist groups? Well, so what? What a discovery! What NSA failed to mention was that on this list and an additional sponsoring list were many members of groups which are not leftist. What have we proved now? Perhaps NSA needs a little lesson in guilt by association. There are many members of active leftist groups in labor unions, all sorts of youth groups, civil rights groups, and even church groups. Perhaps NSA would like to urge a ban on meetings of such groups also. Then it all depends on what makes a group leftist. Is this...
...eyed Vladimir Prochazka, who arrived in Washington as Czech Ambassador last August, got bawled out by President Truman* and vanished three months later, was reported back in Prague and in jail. Comrade Prochazka, loyal party member since 1923, seemed to be a victim of guilt by association: his brother, Jaroslav, former chief of the Czech general staff, is suspected of treason...
About this inward theme of guilt and redemption rages the outward action of the book. In 1348 the Black Death tore through Bedesford like a cyclone; fewer than a third of the townsfolk survived. Then came the plague of the fallow deer and the flood of the Wode. Yet Edwin and Jeanne, Jack and Joan, Alfred and Juliana went on working and breeding, and soon the fields were up to mark again and the population almost normal...