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Children pick up from these parents a sense of danger, distrust and the fragility of life. The parents tend to view the very existence of their offspring as a final triumph over Hitler and antiSemitism. But for the child, it can mean an overwhelming pressure to compensate for dead relatives and justify the parents' lives. "Some of these children don't feel they have a right to be happy," says Toronto Psychiatrist Henry Fenigstein, a camp survivor himself. "The child begins to feel that whether the parent says it or not, he or she must vindicate...
Finally, I must state that I am not German, but my family and I fled from Austria from Hitler's racism and persecution. I take exception to be called the "German companion" of anyone. I am listed in every Who's Who and in the Harvard Alumnae list. I was the first person who filed a class action suit against Harvard University--specifically the Graduate School of Design (1971)--for discrimination, a fact that is well-known to the administration. I also testified in Congress on the subject. I offered to the Peabody Museum and to the Department of Anthropology...
...role he came to play in history. He happened to be black, and his timing was perfect. Thus James Cleveland ("Jesse") Owens became forever a symbol of the triumph of the individual over man's more malevolent impulses. At the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, which Adolf Hitler hoped would be a showcase of Aryan supremacy, Owens won four gold medals in track and field events, a feat not equaled since. The sight of the graceful American's soaring victory in the long jump and his Olympic-record wins in the 100-and 200-meter dashes and 400-meter...
DIED. James Cleveland ("Jesse") Owens, 66, track-and-field legend who, by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, dashed Adolf Hitler's dreams of demonstrating Aryan supremacy; of lung cancer; in Tucson (see SPORT...
Formerly, Costello had a female antagonist worthy of sparring; "Two Little Hitlers" defined relationships as an unending series of one-upmanships and clashes, a dance of death with each power in turn vowing to return. Here, his sometime partner, presumably aging Playboy centerfold and intercontinental pleasure-kitten Bebe Buell, is merely a "B Movie," "a sob-soap story" devoid of all but carnal interest; this is not two Hitlers, but Hitler and Mussolini. The song climaxes as Elvis taunts her for her shallowness: "You can't feel, you can't feel," his voice echoing in her vacuity, while Bruce Thomas...