Word: holocaust
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...issues are as explosive as those that involve the Holocaust. This year has already seen the issue of Holocaust revisionism brust into major controversies on the campuses of Brandeis and Georgetown universities. In both cases, decisions by student newspapers to print revisionist advertisements sparked outrage and protests...
...reaction to revisionism has its roots in the deep emotion with which most of us regard the Holocaust. It is something we treat with a combination of respect and horror, but above all, with remembrance...
...would be nice if "Schindler's List" could be all the things that people want it to be--a shocking portrayal of the Holocaust in all its atrocity, a movie that will reach every person in America, a film that in one blow will demolish all ignorance about the Holocaust...
...this is not the way the world works. Schindler's List is one more victory in the long battle to preserve the memory of the Holocaust...
Spielberg had to strike a balance between a completely commercial movie that would reach most of America and a straightforward PBS documentary. He chose to sacrifice the completeness of a full documentary in order to give his audience a glimpse of the evil of the Holocaust. Some argue that such compromises trivialize the evil that occurred, but Spielberg's presentation was the only possible way to educate the uninformed. It is better that they get an accurate, but abridged, tale of the Holocaust rather than none...