Word: holocaustal
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...Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, a little outfit called DreamWorks SKG; Spielberg oversees the live-action film unit. And in the noblest spin-off generated by a hit movie, the director of Schindler's List established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which records the testimony of Holocaust survivors. In April its first film won a Peabody Award...
...victims was mixed with plundered bank gold and resmelted into bars that were accepted, perhaps too readily, by neutral countries such as Switzerland. But it presented no evidence that the Swiss knew that any of the gold was gotten as it was: from the pockets, mouths and necks of Holocaust victims. Eizenstat insisted on Switzerland's obligation to recognize its lucrative trade relationship for what is was: a sellout. "In the unique circumstances of World War II," he said, "too often being neutral provided a pretext for avoiding moral considerations." And that went for the U.S. too, Eizenstat said. "Neither...
...Friday, I finally got around to seeing Shine. The Oscar-winning film is supposedly about the resurrection of a brilliant (Jewish) child pianist who, having been incapacitated by his father's Holocaust-induced mental abuse, later in life makes a triumphal return to the stage...
...centuries. She writes of "being in the closet" as a Republican while here at Harvard, comparing the historically homosexual hiding place with her own reticence about her political beliefs. Such a comparison is disingenuous at best, downright offensive at worst. Homosexuals have been actively discriminated against from the Holocaust to the Red Scare, and I am not aware of any such movements to silence, haunt, terrorize, deny the rights of and oppress Republicans...
...true that different members of the search committee, as should be expected, can have differing views on how best to approach the topic, but all those serving accepted the mandate of looking specifically for a scholar of the Holocaust...