Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...USING THE term feminist fascists, I do not mean to imply that brown-shirted blondes are goose-stepping down Pennsylvania Avenue with swastikas and Hitler lockets. But there is a worrisome similarity between the aims and tactics of these extreme feminists and political fascists...
Somehow, feminism has managed to dominate the moral high ground and low ground at the same time. I feel like a liberal caught in Hitler's Germany. If I speak out, I run the risk of being shouted down. When I do speak out, my arguments--freedom of thought and expression, the legitimacy of "male" desire--sound dull and lifeless next to the appeals against phallocracy and pornocracy...
...what he says. During the past half-century or so, he has played dozens of memorable roles: a Prime Minister (Disraeli), a Pope (Innocent III), a King (Charles I), a prince (Arabia's Faisal), a fanatical colonel (Nicholson, in The Bridge on the River Kwai), a mad dictator (Hitler), a Jedi knight (Obi-wan Kenobi) and a spymaster (George Smiley in TV adaptations of John le Carre's espionage sagas). Now, at 71, he has added another role to that impressive list: author of one of the best show-business memoirs of recent years, a witty, wise and consistently entertaining...
...when Adolf Hitler launched the Anschluss, or forced annexation of Austria with Germany, the 20-year-old Waldheim was studying at a Viennese academy for future diplomats. He recalled last week, "I took part in students' social activities which might perhaps have been construed as membership in the students' union...
...wrangling, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the extradition of Demjanjuk to Israel, where he will become the first Nazi since Adolf Eichmann in 1961 to stand trial. Compared with Eichmann, who was executed for shipping millions of Jews to death camps, Demjanjuk was small fry in Hitler's genocide machine. A prisoner of war who switched sides and volunteered for the SS, he performed his camp duties with sadistic relish, according to court papers and Treblinka ; survivors. Critics in Israel question the purpose of trying Demjanjuk more than 40 years after his alleged crimes, but prosecutors...