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...WELL-KNOWN romantic early-American oil has a bandaged fifeplayer and a drummer playing a set to kill British and Indians by. The Indians were supposedly (according to the white man's textbook) psyched up by their own percussion accompaniment to the war dance. Hitler broadcast Wagner's pulsating nationalistic themes. So now, since Thunderclap Newman is telling us "we gotta get it together because the revolution's here," we should begin to feel that musical high-energy rush bursting through the dam. Singles such as "Seize the Time" and albums such as "The Last Poc?s" are the adrenalin...
Older Sisters Unity and Diana lived it up with Adolf Hitler. Eldest Sister Nancy became one of London's "gay young things" immortalized by Novelist Evelyn Waugh, then started writing successful books herself (Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire in Love). At 19, Jessica eloped to Spain with Winston Churchill's leftist nephew, Esmond Romilly (who was later killed in World War II). Her outraged father persuaded Foreign Minister Anthony Eden to dispatch a destroyer to bring her home, but Jessica resisted the captain's effort to lure her aboard...
Auden's humanity goes much deeper than his manner might suggest. Almost obsessively he returns to the obscenities of concentration camps and to Hitler's brutalities. One of the more frequently cited authors is Bruno Bettelheim. The poet shares Dr. Bettelheim's concern with autistic children. He even compares the inner sanctuary of his own creative imagination to autism. Describing the "private world" of childhood, he writes...
...truly represents. They brandished Old Glory in one hand and a lead pipe in the other, and in so doing perverted the very democracy for which they think they stand. As for the march on lower Broadway, there has not been such a burlesque of belligerent flag-waving since Hitler and his boys employed similar muscleman tactics. Is this the stuff of which patriots are made? I think...
...period of his rapid rise he told a friend of mine in Appleton that he had first glimpsed the secret of political success by reading Mein Kampf. Hitler's technique, he said, rested on the skillful use of the big lie. Tell a whopper and keep on repeating it. In time people will come to believe it. Joseph McCarthy's big whopper was that the communists had taken over the State Department. Hitler's big lie had been that the Jews had almost destroyed Germany...