Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms. Ross gave them only patriotic sentiments, eloquent appeals to liberty, the Constitution, and traditional values. He invoked the name of nearly every major political folk hero but Lincoln, and stood firmly against the march of Communism. The clarion call rang in his ears as he praised peace, denounced Hitler and totalitarianism, and asked for Americans to "become awakened" to the "evil perils" of government encroachment...
...universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. Then I looked to the individual writers, but they too were mute. Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any great interest in the Church before. But now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once...
...book, Fromm traces the origin of this pathetic middle-class creature to Martin Luther. Putting Luther on the couch, Fromm concludes that Luther plunged modern man into despair. In a neat, if oversimplified analysis, Fromm argues that this Protestant feeling of "powerlessness" paved the way for the acceptance of Hitler. In May Man Prevail?, Fromm continues his war against the middle class with considerably less plausibility. He blames the cold war on the paranoiac attitude of the American middle class (though reserving a few knocks for Russia too), and then in a concluding chapter-written little more than a year...
...absurd and senseless to use the games as cold war battle fronts. Hitler tried to use the 1936 Olympics to prove the supremecy of his Nazi state and earned the laughter of the world when German athletes produced only average performances. Now the U.S., which invented the insidious, meaningless, and unofficial team point system, is following in Hitler's path. Our embarrassment may be as painful as Hitler's, as there is little chance of a U.S. "team" victory...
...Plus IQ. City and Country owes its existence to Adolf Hitler. In 1936, the Nazis chased out Roeper's father...