Word: holocaust
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...abhorrence of RU 486. The host of the Old Time Gospel Hour on 200 television stations, he still has the contacts and much of the clout that he enjoyed in his Moral Majority days. He compares unprotesting acceptance of the new drug to the German churches' inaction during the Holocaust: "We can't make that mistake again," he says. "Morally we will have no recourse except to do whatever is available...
...book, as a teenager, I found it such an exuberant liberation from any false notion of femaleness. And Orlando's 400-year life-span -- it's a wonderful device for looking at the melancholy of mortality. I was a child growing up under the shadow of a possible nuclear holocaust; now I see young people growing up under the shadow of aids. We have a bittersweet feeling of living in the moment, knowing that shortly that moment will be gone forever. Woolf says it is important to value the intensity of your life as it is lived just...
...imposter, however, seems to exist. Roth the character calles him Moishe Pipik (Moses Bellybutton) in a mock Yiddish epithet. Chasing Pipik around Israel. Roth finds out that the double has been spreading a gospel of "Diasporism"--he counsels Ashkenazi Jews to return to Eastern Europe to avoid another Holocaust at the hands of Arabs. Pipik had already met secretly with Lech Walesa and was trying to meet with the Pope using Roth's name...
...trial in the beginning to find Pipik, but he gets so caught up in the idea of mistaken identity that he begins to go out of sheer interest. Roth jumbles in more characters--the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld (who actually exists); his cousin Apter, a slow-witted artist and Holocaust survivor (who doesn't): George Ziad, an old graduate school friend who is now a militant Palistinian living on the West bank; Jinx Possesski, Pipik's Polish nurse and girlfriend (who is a recovering anti-Semite enrolled in Pipik's Anti-Semites Anonymous) and Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted...
Composers silenced by the Holocaust are heard again...