Word: holocaust
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small European cafe. In the background, Jewish men and women, their mouths open eternally in silent screams, are shoved and herded into a huge gas chamber that had once been a bathhouse. This is "Banality of Evil/Struthof," one of the first works in Judy Chicago's latest exhibit, "The Holocaust Project," currently on display at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum...
...exhibit, one is left appalled, shaken and distressed. But it is because of the great horror of the subject matter, not the quality of Chicago's work, that one encounters such feelings. True, many of the exhibit's works are graphic and almost cartoon-like. True, she compares the Holocaust to other issues such as racism, sexism and nuclear waste disposal. Yet she handles all of the issues so deftly and with such balance that, despite the darkness and horror that fill the journey, one continues to follow Chicago's voice on the tiny headset through it, from the despair...
...spoke at Harvard on October 18), "and that's what's going to have to happen when the survivor generation dies off." Leaning on the podium, she stares thoughtfully through her purple-tinted glasses and recollects a conversation with her publisher. "I asked her if she'd seen 'The Holocaust Project' and she said 'No... "The Dinner Party" [an earlier work of Chicago's] was an event you couldn't miss. "The Holocaust Project" is something that I'd rather not have to choose...
Cochran says he has visited Yad Vashem, the memorial in Jerusalem to the victims of the Holocaust. "I understand that no particular race has a corner on misery," he told Time last week. Simpson lawyer Robert Shapiro told a friend he was unhappy about playing up the race issue. But Alan Dershowitz, famously sensitive to anti-Semitism, insists that for putting Fuhrman on the stand in the first place, "the prosecution is entirely to blame for introducing race into this case...
SETTLEMENT ACCEPTED. By HUGO PRINCZ, 72, Holocaust survivor; after his 40-year pursuit of compensation from the German government for 3 1/2 years spent at Maidanek and Auschwitz; in Washington. The settlement means $2.1 million for Princz and 10 other Americans denied reparations because of technicalities in German...