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...merely a handful but millions of Germans who at least part-knowingly acquiesced in what still seems the unspeakable: the organized, systematic gassing and torture of 11 million innocent Jews, Gypsies and others that have left scars that may take all of remaining human history to heal, and memories that ought never be erased...
...irony was that liberalism, which sought to heal the injuries of class, should itself fall victim to class warfare -- to the resentment of the blue- collar and lower-middle classes against those they saw as the professional- class purveyors of paternalism. White Southerners and Northern ethnics, once Democratic stalwarts, increasingly felt like outsiders at the gate. A Great Society? Not if you'd been left off the invitation list...
...maneuvered to ensure that, unlike in 1988, in fact unlike in any election since 1960, race was not an issue. Partly he achieved this by shying away from being cast as the tribune for the poor and blacks. Now he faces the more exalted challenge of acting affirmatively to heal the racial and cultural tensions that have frayed America's social quilt...
...socially therapeutic. "Heroin," Kertess opines, "seems to have played some role in the formation of the discontinuous maps of mental states that are his paintings and drawings. Heroin seems to have helped him fuse his line with his nerve endings as they responded to, parodied and sought to heal a disturbed culture...
...reason is simple. Like the Civil War, Vietnam pitted Americans against each other. Even though the military engagements took place far away and long ago, the political and psychic scars on the home front will not heal. By the end of the century, Americans will probably remember the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. as they now look back on Normandy and Iwo Jima -- climactic moments in triumphs for Our Side that have passed into history...