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...Thyrdes (St. Martin's Press; 292 pages; $15.95) is about British moral rot of another sort, the ambition and reaction that caused a relative handful of mostly privileged young people to join fascist movements and endorse Hitler and the Nazis. Because such infiltration no longer threatens Britain's independence, the novel lacks The Endless Game's aura of larger significance. But it offers two ingeniously interwoven plots--twin attempts to discredit a father and son, 35 years apart. To understand what is happening to him, the son must solve a puzzle that baffled his father, who died in combat before...
...Carmel, second kitchens have been put in many cottages to allow older residents to live at home while renting out the rest of the house. A tough new ordinance proposes strictly regulating and possibly eliminating them. "If you've read that ordinance," he says, "it's like Adolf Hitler knocking on your door. A lot of people could be evicted from their homes...
...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...
...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...