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...hiccups," says Martinez. "I'd get irritated and he'd back off or laugh it off, but more and more, he was consumed with this stuff. He continued to talk about [a nuclear] Armageddon. In fact, he got target-locked on it. He was becoming obsessed with post-[nuclear]-holocaust government intrusion. And then you take the quantum leap from [nuclear war] and Soviet invasion to [present-day] government involvement, left-wing infiltration into the government...
Conroy's expansive storytelling style tends to disarm criticism. But he goes too far when the Holocaust bears down on Beach Music like a runaway cement barge. First, McCall's Jewish wife jumps off a bridge after having her father's concentration-camp number tattooed on her arm; she wants to join Europe's murdered Jews. Conroy later inserts long sections about pogroms in czarist Russia, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi death camps to explain the suicide. They don't. The historical carpetbagging doesn't add much of anything to the novel except a few unnecessarily grisly shocks...
DIED. JEROME BADANES, 58, acclaimed writer-filmmaker who explored themes of Jewish life and the Holocaust; of a heart attack; in New York City...
...overriding concern was to enable the survivors of the Holocaust, who were in displaced persons camps all over Europe, and the endangered Jewish minorities in the Arab world to join the established Jewish settlement in Palestine. The Jewish leadership made every possible effort to end the misery of the European refugees, rather than letting them languish for decades in camps as an international bargaining tool in a quest for an impossible dream...
Benjamin Jacobs, a Holocaust survivor, and author of the recently published book The Dentist of Auschwitz, was the speaker...