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...tutorial rather than autobiographical; a succession of wives and mistresses make brief entrances and exits between mini-essays. Those essays, though, pick up nearly all of the slack of the personal narrative. They recreate some of the events that agitated his circle during the past three decades-the post-Holocaust trauma. Red baiting in the '50s. radicalism in the '60s-and show who lined up where and for what reasons. Kazin himself often wound up in the middle and caught grief from both sides. His scrupulous, sometimes pained explanations make his history of some intellectuals itself a kind...
...anxious to wash the dirty laundry of mankind with Holocaust [April 17], why doesn't it broadcast programs about the Armenians in Turkey, the Jews in Spain, the Huguenots in France...
While NBC does not "trivialize" the Holocaust, the commercial medium as usual supplies staggering irony: love, hate, life and death, v. body odor, heartburn, junk food and spray starch...
...possible to approach the subject of the Holocaust with all kinds of metaphysical pretensions. The producers of Holocaust, knowing their medium, audience and tremendous potential for popular influence, avoided the deep mystifications that attend most theories about the aesthetics of atrocity. The philosopher T.W. Adorno once claimed that to write poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric. If those who made Holocaust had taken that warning seriously-it amounts to an injunction to silence-they would hardly have dared anything as vulgar as a TV show. But in telling the story as soap opera enlarged to historic proportions, the producers never truly...
Perhaps television cannot be expected to plumb horror any more thoroughly than it did. Could anyone have endured a closer inspection of it? The Holocaust is very nearly unbearable to contemplate. But one senses something wrong with the television effort when one realizes that two or three black-and-white concentration-camp still photographs displayed by Dorf-the stacked, starved bodies-are more powerful and heartbreaking than two or three hours of the dramatization. The last 15 minutes of Vittorio De Sica's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, in which Italian Jews are rounded up to be taken...