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...hate on the Internet is complex. Universities, which have a special commitment to free speech and inquiry, are certainly different from private companies like Netscape. Few people would question the fact that Widener Library has multiple copies of Mein Kampf or even that it subscribes to journals on Holocaust revisionism. It seems necessary for a university to allow students the opportunity to study all aspects of current thought...
READ AS A WORK OF PURE IMAGInation, the powerfully written Holocaust chronicle that Hungarian author Janos Nyiri calls a novel (Battlefields and Playgrounds; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 536 pages; $25) has some inconsistencies. Most of these involve a too broad awareness of the military and political progression of the war, which might be appropriate to an adult survivor looking back at chaos, but not to the day-to-day fears of the young Jewish boy Jozska, eight years old at the war's outset, from whose point of view the story is told...
...afraid. "No one will ask any questions" if you wear this, she says and they leave the stage with the body. The Lesson leaves the audience wondering just what it's trying to say. Is it just a sendup of academia? A metaphor for the Holocaust? You're not quite sure afterwards--nor perhaps, are you supposed to be. Forgacs and Dunogue have captured the spirit of The Lesson--part comedy, part human tragedy, all absurdity--and given audiences a treat. The performances are excellent and the direction apt. "The Lesson" leaves you wondering, but it also leaves you entertained...
...clear: Gay men land those who love them should get up in arms lest they be eradicated from the planet. If we're not careful, we'll lose out on good citizens like David Gold. This discourse of extermination Tolins initiates, which we are supported to hear as a Holocaust echo, is unconstructive and leaves us mired at square one What Tolins does do well and should have done more of is examine why the Gold-Steins wealthy, educated liberals, the people we would expect least likely to about a fetus because of its sexual orientation... embrace the idea that...
DIED. SIMON RIFKIND, 94, lawyer and judge; in New York City. Rifkind fought for the cream of society and the wretched of the earth. As General Eisenhower's adviser on Jewish affairs, he pushed for aid to Holocaust victims and immigration to Palestine. As a star attorney, he represented Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in actions against probing author William Manchester and prying photographer Ronald Galella...