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THURSDAY: Alexander Nevsky. (1938) Sergei Eisenstein's epic of 13th century warfare in Russia scarcely veils its gung-ho John Wayne-style plumping for Josef Stalin and his then-tough policy towards Hitler's Germany. CH.2...
NIXON IS a dangerous man. Hitler, like Nixon, received his original mandate from a population presumably living in a democracy. And despite the fact that he was born, raised, and has lived in this country for six decades (and has held public office for twenty-seven years) Nixon still does not appear to comprehend the difference between a coronation and an inauguration, let alone the meanings of the words "freedom" and "democracy...
...Marriage of Figaro. The first act went well, Solti recalls, but with the start of the second act, the singers started making mistakes while the audience grew raucously restless. To his relief Solti later learned that his conducting was not the cause: word had reached the audience that Hitler was on his way into Vienna, only 130 miles away...
Daily newsreels are shown in a small theater whose entrance has been reconstructed from fragments of Trans-Lux newsreel theaters in New York and Washington; during the opening weeks, films from the '30s will feature clips of Hitler addressing his countrymen. Vintage radio sets play actual news broadcasts; H.V. Kaltenborn's reports from London crackle from a 1939 RCA portable. Similarly, major television news stories are rebroadcast, ranging in time from celebrations of the conquest of Japan to the conquest of the moon. Once each day, a duplicate of the compact Apollo 11 TV camera will be demonstrated...
...moral question of whether anyone ever has the right to take another person's life. And the possibilities for abuse or extreme extension of the right to put people out of their misery, either by individuals or governments, are far too obvious for people living only 30 years after Hitler to accept. While the courts have dealt more lightly with mercy killers than with murderers, it is unlikely that active euthanasia will become accepted practice in this country in the near future...