Word: hitleritis
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...criterion, we kept having to remind ourselves, was influence, not greatness. In selecting the world leaders, it was easy to understand that we were selecting not those we liked but those (such as Hitler) whose influence was huge. But for artists, everyone was tempted to push for personal favorites, the folks each of us thought were the best. For example, I'm in that slice of my generation that thinks the Stones were better than the Beatles, but I had to admit the Beatles had more influence. In the end a lot of people who may have been the best...
...degenerate art," his fame protected him during the German occupation of Paris, where he lived; and after the war, when artists and writers were thought disgraced by the slightest affiliation with Nazism or fascism, Picasso gave enthusiastic endorsement to Joseph Stalin, a mass murderer on a scale far beyond Hitler's, and scarcely received a word of criticism for it, even in cold war America...
...terrifyingly comic Adenoid Hynkel (a takeoff on Hitler), whom Chaplin played in The Great Dictator, or M. Verdoux, the sardonic mass murderer of middle-aged women, may seem drastic departures from the "little fellow," but the Tramp is always ambivalent and many-sided. Funniest when he is most afraid, mincing and smirking as he attempts to placate those immune to pacification, constantly susceptible to reprogramming by nearby bodies or machines, skidding around a corner or sliding seamlessly from a pat to a shove while desire and doubt chase each other across his face, the Tramp is never unself-conscious, never...
...loved ("Tell me I'm good!" he pleads of his friend Milhouse's mom). But do hold the pathos. The reason for his appeal is that he's so brilliant at being bad; his pranks have a showman's panache. When he drives off in what is touted as Hitler's car, he chortles, "It's Fuhrer-ific!" After impishly filling Groundskeeper Willie's shack with creamed corn, he listens to Willie curse, "You did it, Bart Simpson!" and murmurs, with practiced modesty, "The man knows quality work...
...raised by the incident might not be of primary concern to Lukashenko. TIME correspondent Yuri Zarakovich reports that the authoritarian president has restored a Soviet-style command economy, and last April responded to a fall in the Belarus ruble by firing and jailing dozens of officials. With Lukashenko citing Hitler's stewardship of Germany as a role model for his presidency, it's fair to assume that diplomatic protocol is not his priority...