Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born in Vienna, Rubinger fled to British-occupied Palestine in 1939, after Hitler annexed Austria. During World War II, Rubinger returned to Europe to fight the Nazis with Britain's Jewish Brigade. Along the way, two things happened that changed his life. He met his future wife Anni, a concentration- camp survivor who is a TIME picture researcher. Almost as important, he picked up his first camera, an Argus-35, and quickly decided that taking pictures should be his career...
...Brawley Lawyers Alton Maddox and Vernon Mason, veterans of New York City's race-drenched politics, and Pentecostal Minister Al Sharpton, a rabble-rouser from Brooklyn who calls New York Governor Mario Cuomo a racist and has likened State Attorney General Robert Abrams, special prosecutor in the case, to Hitler. Sharpton even contends that the assault is part of a racist plot linked to the Irish Republican Army...
Partly, too, Superman evolved in response to changes in American society, starting with the cataclysm of World War II. In one misguided early effort, his creators had him fly to Berchtesgaden and Moscow and haul both Hitler and Stalin before a League of Nations tribunal in Geneva. Believers in verisimilitude began wondering how Superman avoided getting drafted. Simple. Clark Kent patriotically went to take his physical exam, but when he looked at the eye chart, his X-ray vision caused him to read figures from a chart in the next room. He was rated...
...pressure on Waldheim is likely to grow as Austria prepares for next month's 50th anniversary of its annexation by Hitler's Third Reich. Says Secretary of State for Women's Affairs Johanna Dohnal, a Socialist leader: "Anything that will free us from the present position will be welcome as a solution. Anything would be better than what we have now." In ever increasing numbers, Austrians are starting to agree...
...water running over stone, the novels of Aharon Appelfeld slowly make a deep impression. Badenheim 1939 (1980), The Age of Wonders (1982), To the Land of the Cattails (1986) are imperceptibly abrasive, patient and stubborn in their scourings. Appelfeld's recurring subject is daily life just before and after Hitler's war against the Jews. The central crimes of the period need no enhancement, having been passed directly into the stream of conscience by the unadorned testimony of the survivors...