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Broken Glass revisits familiar Miller terrain. The era is the Depression, the battleground is a Jewish family, the ugly rumbling offstage is the rise of Adolf Hitler. The mainspring of the play is the paralysis that Sylvia Gellburg suffers in her legs, which has no apparent physical cause. Is it a result of her sexless and bitter marriage? Is it linked to the futile assimilationism of her Jew-among-Wasps banker husband? Is it somehow tied to her Cassandra-like obsession with Hitler's assault on German Jews, a threat in which no one around her sees urgency...
...point), his supposed "Nazi legacy" was effectively discredited a few decades ago by eminent Nietzsche scholar and prolific translator, Walter Kaufmann. Indeed., Nietzsche detested the German Reich and once boasted, "I am having all anti-Semites shot." Significantly, Nietzsche's "Supermen" were not anti-intellectual warmongers (read: Hitler), but rather the great community of artists and philosophers of the future...
...element of appeasement in the foundation of the department. In his 1991 book The University: An Owner's Manual, Rosovsky likened the process by which Afro-Am became a department to an "academic Munich"-- a reference to the 1938 conference where the allied diplomats tried to appease Hitler...
...French writer named Denis de Rougemont attended a Nazi rally in Nuremburg and recorded a stunning experience. The long-awaited arrival of Adolf Hitler threw the crowd into a frenzy. Screams of delight mounted to a ferver pitch as the man drew nearer, until the surging mass of the people gave way to utter hysteria. Rougemont felt something uncontrollable stir within him--the thrill of mass hysteria--and so powerful was the feeling that he almost succumbed. But something withing him rebelled. Ionesco relates Rougemont's story with curiosity in his notes from November 1960; "just then...
Today the question has been muted with time; few other than historians debate the peculiar forces that usurped the rationality and strength of will of so many Germans to the extent that they tolerated Hitler and his agenda. Endless theorizing on the root causes of the Nazi psychological and emotional plague unearths a sad legacy of suffering that did not end with World War Two, but has continued to haunt the European psyche for decades. The broader public has left these questions behind, though, and in many ways the rediscovery of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" now serves only as retrospective...