Word: hitleritis
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Norman K. Mailer ’43 is and always has been a controversial writer. And it’s hard to think of an historical figure more synonymous with the word “controversial” than Adolf Hitler. So when Mailer publishes his first novel in a decade, and it takes as its subject the deeds of Hitler, one expects a certain amount of controversy; but when the pre-release press for “The Castle in the Forest” focused almost exclusively on Mailer’s decision to include a bibliography...
...from it.'' Once when the columnist Stewart Alsop wrote that the Israelis have a ''Masada complex,'' a besieged mentality, preferring collective suicide to surrender, Prime Minister Golda Meir replied, ''It is true. We do have a Masada complex. We have a pogrom complex. We have a Hitler complex.'' Yehoshafat Harkabi, once the chief of Israeli military intelligence and now a professor of international relations at the Hebrew University, has one of the clearer minds in the Middle East. He sits in his study at dusk, on Bar Kokhba, a street in Jerusalem named for the leader of a catastrophic Jewish...
...hands of the left wing of his party when Democratic postmortems were held after the 1994 congressional debacle. The intellectual quality of the proceedings was impressive but, as is always the case with ideologues, myopic. Churchill was cited extravagantly, but it was always the lonely, courageous Churchill warning about Hitler in the 1930s rather than the failed, frustrated Churchill who presided over Britain's Mesopotamian disaster in the 1920s, a folly largely of his own making...
...hands of the left wing of his party when Democratic postmortems were held after the 1994 congressional debacle. The intellectual quality of the proceedings was impressive but, as is always the case with ideologues, myopic. Churchill was cited extravagantly, but it was always the lonely, courageous Churchill warning about Hitler in the 1930s rather than the failed, frustrated Churchill who presided over Britain's Mesopotamian disaster in the 1920s, a folly largely of his own making...
...cause as Prime Minister Paul Keating's chair of the Australia Council for the Arts, but his most powerful argument in its defence is his own writing. From The Island in the Mind's 17th century Frenchman, who invents Terra Incognita as an opera, to The Day We Had Hitler Home's Audrey McNeil, who, with her hand-held camera, invents Europe as a movie, Hall's novels comprise what he calls "a seven-part metaphorical history of Australia." His next, to be set in the Brisbane his family discovered on emigrating from England when Hall was 12, is, like...