Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Estefan was stung by the resulting criticism. But she couldn't have been too surprised. Politics in Miami is controlled by older, hard-line Cuban exiles who oppose anything that even slightly hints of dealing with or accommodating the Castro regime. They routinely compare Fidel Castro to Adolf Hitler, and liken the plight of exiles from Cuba to that of Jews who perished during the Holocaust. Moderate Cubans often practice self-censorship in order to avoid the consequences. In the past Estefan has generally kept a low profile. But she said that this time she felt compelled to speak...
...young Austrian, his country's most revered athlete, climbs mountains to escape from himself. Leaving his wife, he treks to a remote kingdom to find a new truth. An ideal Aryan who befriends a boy of the yellow race, he dumps Hitler for the Dalai Lama. A man bred on competition, he becomes a missionary for peace and enlightenment. Sounds as though there's a movie in Heinrich Harrer's life...
SEYMOUR HERSH J.F.K.-Marilyn papers turn out to be about as real--and as journalistic--as the Hitler diaries...
...subject matter bounces from Hitler's last words (the Further entertains a few possibilities, including "BINGO!," before settling on "I never asked to be born in the first place") to the final moments of his first wife's existence (an event which is treated with great respect and tenderness and features some of the book's most skillful imagery). If anything is a digression, it's the barely developed timequake plot itself...
DIED. SIR GEORG SOLTI, 84, fierce maestro who prodded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to the front of the world stage; in Antibes, France. During his conducting debut at the Budapest Opera, Solti's audience fled--not from his Mozart, but out of fear that Hitler, then in Vienna, was fast approaching. Never again. On the Chicago podium, he transfixed listeners, seemingly verging on levitation in his energetic efforts to draw tight phrasing and brilliant coloration from his musicians. His athleticism won the orchestra 23 Grammy Awards during his 22-year reign...