Word: holocaustic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could remain unsuspecting after the burning of the synagogues...? Whoever opened his eyes and ears and sought information could not fail to notice that Jews were being deported...When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything...
...excluded from polite company. He should even be welcomed at Harvard, to lecture, to debate, to honor others. But should this apologist for his father's Nazi war crimes be among the two handfuls of distinguished people from around the globe honored by Harvard? Many survivers of the Holocaust and others who care deeply about justice do not believe so. They do not want the Harvard honor to be understood as helping Richard von Weizsacker "rehabilitate his family name," if that includes the deservedly disgraced name of his Nazi war criminal father...
...expert on the history of the Holocaust this week challenged the selection of the president of West Germany as Commencement speaker saying the European statesman has systematically lied in defense of his father who was a chief diplomat for Nazi Germany...
...aesthetic and ichthyological achievement of Blues should not be minimized. John Hersey, previously noted for elaborations of such historic themes as World War II (A Bell for Adano), the Holocaust (The Wall) and the atom bomb (Hiroshima), has chosen the dialogue form for what seems a lighter topic: the pursuit of bluefish off Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. But as the book's insatiably curious Stranger talks informally with the knowledgeable Fisherman, a cascade of lore and documents, poetry and tragedy is netted along with the glistening quarry...
Though tempted, Johnson is not completely seduced by the attractions of mystical determinism, the idea that Jewish experience from the Covenant through the Diaspora, the Holocaust and the Return is the expression of providential design. "We are," he writes, "credulous creatures, born to believe, and equipped with powerful imaginations which readily produce and rearrange data to suit any transcendental scheme." Abundant evidence is proffered, from Jewish false messiahs to Aryan delusions of racial supremacy...