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...Adolf Hitler...
Millennial expectations at the beginning of this century brightened, however, and for a while shone with optimism and self-confidence. The 1939 World's Fair (just before Hitler marched into Poland) was organized around the sleek theme, "Building the World of Tomorrow." In 1965 (just before the Vietnam War began in earnest), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences brought together its "Commission on the Year 2000." The chairman, sociologist Daniel Bell, declared, "The problem of the future consists in defining one's priorities and making the necessary commitments." In other words, as Barkun observes, "We get the future...
Born Judith Nisse in Riga, Latvia, she and her family traveled across the former Soviet Union in the early part of World War II just before Latvia was annexed. The Jewish family fled both Stalin and Hitler and eventually landed in Sweden and Japan...
Nearly 30 years ago, Vidal argued that an American tyrant would achieve power not by ranting his hatred a la Hitler but by crooning a demagogic lullaby. For some, Ronald Reagan, who could say mean things without sounding mean -- sometimes without sounding as if he meant them or knew what they meant -- was the proof of Vidal's theory. Bob Roberts is the next step. He sings jolly hate songs as his parents sang Michael, Row the Boat Ashore (a tune that Robbins' father Gil made famous as a member of the '60s folk group the Highwaymen). Bob Roberts...
...international politics, Munich is a word of shame. The 1938 conference at which Britain and France agreed to let Adolf Hitler's troops occupy a big chunk of their ally Czechoslovakia made the city's name synonymous with a cowardly sellout to aggression. So it is no surprise that the organizers of the international conference on the Balkans that is scheduled to meet in London this week staunchly deny they will countenance a rerun. Just the opposite, says British Deputy Foreign Secretary Douglas Hogg: the conferees will "make it absolutely plain to the Serbs that they are not going...