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...Clinton said, quoting the Bible in his acceptance of the Democratic nomination a year ago, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Democracy as such is not in doubt today: most people would pass up the chance to have another "strong" leader like Hitler or Stalin. But the debate over where democracy can take societies, as distinct from whether it is a good thing, was frozen for many years by the cold war struggle. In its wake, governments are hard pressed to supply inspiration...
...single installation by the political- conceptua l artist Hans Haacke. In the past Haacke has done many a verbose indictment of capitalist culture, but this time he seems to have got his epigram down. The first thing you see is a wall with a blown-up image of Hitler visiting the 1934 Venice Biennale. The floor of the rest of the gallery has been torn up into a litter of marble debris, which clatters ominously as visitors stumble across it. On the wall behind, the single word: GERMANIA. A one-shot piece, but right on target...
...Poinsett's show, inspired by Metzger's and also called Race and Reason, is even more extreme. An unabashed neo-Nazi, Poinsett asserts that "America is becoming darker and dumber every day" and considers Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler "the greatest white men who ever lived." When his show began running in New York City in January, viewer protests forced the program's local sponsor to withdraw it. Poinsett was appalled. "I am a political dissident," he says. "The First Amendment was meant for people like...
...wasn't Vietnam, it wasn't Korea and Hitler was a real, definite menace," says Nelson R. Knox. "It seemed a war was going on and we were going to be a part of it. At 21, you're immortal...
From the time of their arrival in September 1939, as Hitler rolled over Poland, to Radcliffe President Ada L. Comstock's 1943 Commencement announcement that Radcliffe students would thereafter attend Harvard classes, the world--and Radcliffe--changed dramatically...