Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were on an Italian street corner, Pasqualino hums a southern love song as he adjusts his striped prisoner's cap to a rakish angle above his sunken cheeks, hoping to entice a woman whose outstretched whip and frozen gaze make her a figure only slightly more approachable than Hitler himself...
...structure their lives. Those conditions are thrust upon people by external forces entirely beyond their control, and for Wertmuller they can only choose how to submit to the situations that confront them pre-formed. Seven Beauties opens with black and white montage of World War II newsreels, clips of Hitler and bombings, which eventually leads into the wreck that allows Pasqualino to desert the troop train and plunges him into the Nazi inferno. The social conditions constraining the characters' action stand outside the narrative itself, temporally distant, colored differently, and represented impersonally. Only when the situation is fully formed...
...worst aspects of the Games and an ultra-patriotic my-country-first-or-third attitude. It's bad enough that the competitive, winning-is-everything value system is bound up with the Olympics, but to have ABC emphasize the nation against nation aspects brings back visions of Hitler's 1936 attempt to turn the Olympics into a showcase for the "superior Aryan race." The Olympics is a grand gesture of international amity; the friendships and love affairs between athletes of different countries have always been the best outcome of the Games...
Volume IX also documents Pius XII's protests, though private, against German atrocities. After some 1,300 Jews were arrested by SS troops in a raid on Rome's ghetto in October 1943, for example, Hitler's ambassador was summoned to the Vatican. There he was told that the raid "was painful for the Holy Father in that so many persons were made to suffer simply because they belonged to another race." According to Volume IX, the decision to stop short of denunciation was made partly from concern over jeopardizing the Holy See's diplomatic efforts...
Fans and Prints. When Prince was planning Cabaret in 1966, he told Aronson that he saw similarities between what was happening in Germany in the immediate pre-Hitler era and what was happening in the U.S. Boris asked himself: " 'How do I convey this comparison to an audience?' It occurred to me to hang a huge mirror tilted on the stage which reflected the audience. It said, 'Look at yourselves...