Word: hitlerize
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...using it for cheap political purposes. The label has become the universal atomic bomb of denigration, and you don't even have to be German to have it dropped on your head. Remember last fall, when one of Schröder's minions compared George W. Bush to Hitler? This riled the White House more than any of Schröder's anti-American antics on the campaign trail, and Herta Däubler-Gmelin, the Justice Minister who said it, was let go. Now it is Berlusconi, President of the European Union for the next six months...
...view of Jack Brock, pastor of the Christ Community Church in Alamogordo, N.M., which made worldwide headlines for its "holy bonfire" in December 2001, in which Harry Potter was among the books burned. The incident was taken out of context, says Brock. "The media made me look like Hitler." But that said, he still would do it again. "They [the books] are totally, completely, entirely about witchcraft," he told TIME. "The next book, I understand, will be 700 pages long, and it's just going to be going deeper and deeper into witchcraft. Anyone who thinks that's healthy...
...Over a six-decade career, Peck received five Oscar nominations and won the best actor award in 1962 for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, a small-town lawyer battling racism in To Kill a Mockingbird. Although not all his roles were likable?Peck played a mad scientist who clones Hitler in The Boys from Brazil?he once said, "I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation...
...Jews and Muslims are confident that the government will reject the proposal in deference to cultural sensitivities, as it has done in the past, but the symbolism of the attempt still makes many uneasy. "One can't help remembering that in the 1930s [restricting kosher slaughter] was one of Hitler's first laws, when he wanted to bring the Jewish way of life to a halt," says Michael Kester, head of the National Council of Shechita Boards, which oversees Jewish ritual slaughter...
Your story on the mini-series Hitler: The Rise of Evil [TELEVISION, May 19] reported that many people were concerned that this biography of Adolf Hitler would risk humanizing the tyrant--as if this were a bad thing! What better way to combat evil than to understand it in its full context? We must comprehend all the facets--human and inhuman--of Hitler's life in order to appreciate fully the horror that his hate brought to the world. In refusing to pay attention to the disturbing ways in which Hitler may have resembled a normal person, the world runs...