Word: hitlering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seven beautiful girls cast in the chorus line. In these scenes, Andrew Sellon gives an outstanding performance as the ghoulish Master of Ceremonies. Appearing in heavily rouged whiteface, the host welcomes the other characters, as well as the audience, into the club's milieu, and the brutal world of Hitler's Brownshirts...
...more successful scene, the chorus girls dance as dolls, while Beth Saidel performs a dance solo as a ballerina lost in a sea of mechanical people. At the end of the number they "heil Hitler"; the ballerina gives up and joins them. Although the concept of the flitting dancer seems a bit hackneyed, it clarifies the action for the audience...
Then the now famous scene: Reagan grabbing the mike, Breen ordering the power cut off, and Reagan shouting back, "I am paying for this microphone!" Pandemonium. "You Hitler!" someone yelled. "Didn't you ever hear of freedom of the press?" Throughout the uproar, Bush looked confused. "I was invited here by the editors of the Nashua newspaper," he said. "I am their guest. I will play by the rules, and I'm glad to be here." This was generally taken as support for a two-man debate...
...impact of runaway inflation in 1791 during the French Revolution, Chronicler Louis Blanc later wrote: "Commerce was dead; betting took its place." History's great inflations have almost always been followed by a dictator who promised among other things to restore the currency's value. Napoleon, Hitler and Mao Tse-tun all rode the power on the back of huperinflation...
...been a combined act of violence by one set of people upon another set of people that has not been perpetrated in the name of patriotism." Patriotism is both indispensable and extremely dangerous, involving always the hazards of the self being ceded to the larger purposes of the fatherland. Hitler had a sinister little instinct for patriotic sentiment. Patriotism, or a debased form of it, raucous with jingo and the bully's knuckles, has led the U.S. astray from time to time; citizens hounded German Americans during World War I, for example. They did idiotic and ominous things-fulminating...