Word: holocaust
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...frame and a face that is memorably poetic in its asymmetry, Neeson, 44, has always possessed movie-star aura. But it took Hollywood nearly a decade to figure out how to capture it. By the time Neeson landed the role of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's monumental Holocaust elegy, the Irish actor had already appeared in 23 mostly unheralded films. And yet, even though Schindler's List won Neeson the kind of praise and splashy recognition (including an Oscar nomination for Best Actor) that had long eluded him, it was a film that belonged more to its harrowing subject...
...four speakers also expressed differing views on the nature of the Holocaust's role in the lives of Jews...
Wisse said that using the Holocaust as a symbol for the Jewish people brings out their vulnerability rather than their strengths, and added that the Holocaust Museum represents the "triumph of anti-Semitism...
Pipes also said he thinks that the Holocaust should not be used as a Jewish symbol. "Jews have existed for 3000 years....Life is the symbolism of the Jewish religion, not death...
...biologically superior as well. This engendered a level of resentment previously unseen in the region. "Tutsi and Hutu have killed each other more to upbraid a vision they have of themselves and the others than for material interests," historian Gerard Prunier wrote in his account of the 1994 Rwandan holocaust. "That is what makes the killing so relentless...