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...inspired tens of thousands of young Jews from Palestine to join the British army in fighting the Nazis, but at the same time authorized an underground agency to ship Jewish refugees into the country. As the British were intercepting, deporting and locking away these survivors of the Nazi inferno in barbed-wired detention camps, world opinion grew more and more sympathetic to the Zionist prescription for the plight of the Jews. This strategy helped bring about the favorable atmosphere that led to the 1947 U.N. resolution, partitioning Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state...
...this is fuel for her new fire. Now the spotlight feels to her like an inferno, and her popularity looks like an abyss. "I traded fame for love," she laments on the CD's opening song, the gently cascading Drowned World/Substitute for Love. On the subdued Nothing Really Matters, she confesses "Looking at my life/It's very clear to me/I lived so selfishly...
...incongruously vibrant like "Yellow Mama," the electric chair in Alabama used last week for the execution of ex-Klansman Henry Hays. Or death can have the rustic decrepitude of the gallows in Delaware, which remains in operation. But on every chamber hang the words inscribed in Dante's Inferno: "Abandon all hope you who enter here...
...year: as a peace dividend. A generation ago, in the midst of the Vietnam War, the idea of a year off from college was dangerously ridiculous. Leaving school meant a one-way ticket to Saigon. Two generations ago it was Korea. Three generations ago, war-torn Europe or the inferno of the Pacific. My generation has had the blessing of growing up in peaceful times, and it has made all the difference. That fifth year of college has given us, in the best sense of the cliche, a chance to find ourselves...
...next year or so: TV-movie versions of Moby Dick and David Copperfield for the USA and Turner networks respectively, not to mention a sweeping Crime and Punishment mini-series for NBC. Meanwhile, Halmi is also working to bring versions of Animal Farm, The Raven and Dante's Inferno to the small screen...