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Still he caused no alarm. Says German History Professor Otto Nelson: "I never picked up anything unusual or bizarre about him. He never asked a thing in class." (Hinckley did, however, choose to specialize: one paper focused on Hitler's Mein Kampf, his other on Auschwitz.) Says Mark Swafford, one of his Lubbock landlords: "I only saw him with another human being one time." Hinckley's student life was a sad, remote vigil. "Everywhere there were empty bags from hamburger joints and cartons of ice cream," says Swafford. "He just sat there the whole time, staring...
...ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, the author mentions how the themes of his book reflect his origins, "from Jewish parents who fled Hitler, and who tried in their transplanted lives to retain the balance between hope and reason which is called liberalism." William Ellery Channing also retained this balance, at a time when it was most delicate. He promoted the idea of a national literature, sought an American Milton enthusiastically while quietly harboring fears and doubts that America could produce one. The beauty of Delbanco's essay resides in its expansiveness: it opens outward from Channing's life to ask larger questions, and leaves...
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain emerged from the 1938 Munich Conference, having ceded a slice of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, and made his slogan "peace in our time" synonymous with disastrous appeasement. Chamberlain's policy was largely a reflection of the popular pacifist sentiment in prewar Britain. Only a hopeless alarmist would suggest that such calamitous history might be repeating itself today. But Western military experts and policymakers are undeniably concerned by an increasing reluctance by Europe's man-in-the-street to accept the necessity of self-defense...
Lest anyone miss the point, Alternate Delegate Richard Schifter, a Washington attorney, delivered a broadside against the Soviets. Invoking "the lessons of the Hitler era," he charged the Soviets with "thinly veiled antiSemitism" with its attacks on Zionism, and characterized the Soviet Union as a state whose "atheistic doctrine seeks to stamp out all creeds...
...Vienna of his day (1862-1931) was phosphorescent in decay: Schnitzler's contemporaries numbered Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, Arnold Schoenberg, Gustav Mahler and Adolf Hitler. Schnitzler chose to puncture that neurasthenic society's pretensions to honor, its pursuit of frivolity and its moral numbness. He knew the absurdity of doubling one's speed when one has lost all sense of direction...