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...best moment in the movie is Rubinstein's most private one. He visits Israel's memorial to the Nazi holocaust. More than one hundred members of his family had been killed by Hitler, and the camera moves in for a tight closeup of his reaction. Rubinstein, simply and without show, turns his back and, as the camera pursues him, walks away, keeping his face averted until he has composed himself. In this short scene, we get a sense not only of the passion but the deep dignity from which such a great talent is born and nurtured...
...Security Affairs. Dinitz, subtle and clearheaded, is fully aware of the current concerns of American Jews. "There is more talk of a second Munich in the United States than in Israel," he observes. "As Foreign Minister Yigal Allon has said, Ford is not a Chamberlain, Sadat is not a Hitler, and Israel is not a Czechoslovakia. But great apprehension exists...
...peas in a pod. Here is the early Christian theologian-and heretic-Origen, who castrated himself, and the American Benjamin Franklin, who did not. Here is Pythagoras, who denounced beans, and Horace Greeley, who renounced coffee. Here are the diverse saints and satans of human history: Gandhi and Hitler, Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Bormann, Albert Schweitzer and Richard Wagner. In The Vegetable Passion, such celebrities are always less notable for their deeds than for their dinners. "Byron," observes Barkas, "noted poet and lover, practiced a meatless diet sporadically throughout his life, not because of deep ethical or political ideas...
...that Germany could have been easily defeated in 1938 by a joint military force from those countries which reneged on their commitment to Czechoslovakia. It seems clear that Lindbergh distorted the military situation in Europe, whether deliberately or not, to prevent America from joining or encouraging a war against Hitler...
...meanwhile entered Harvard Law School and married Cicely d'Autremont of Tucson, Ariz., a junior at Vassar. He was called up in 1943, put through basic training and also assigned to OSS and sent to Italy. His unit uncovered some of the secret correspondence between Hitler and Mussolini that was later introduced into the Nuremberg trials as proof of their conspiracy...