Word: jew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chagall's peculiarly repetitive "humor" had its roots in Vitebsk, Russia. Under the Czars, no Jew could forget the burden of dread which Christian Europe forced on his race. But Chagall's family were Hasideans, who rebelled against the sober intellectualism of the Talmudists. They taught young Marc that the essence of religion was love, and that sorrow could only cloud communication with...
...effect of realism, is heightened by the wide variety of characters brought into view: a Polish Jew, a German widow, a petty fascist, an English flier, etc. (English titles are provided for the eight foreign languages used in the background behind the Englishmen.) Yet among all these there is no villain, in the Hollywood sense of the word-even the fascist is an understandable human being. Nowhere have the Swiss fallen into the trap of personifying evil in well-known typed characters: the snivelling, mustached Italian informer, the hard-bitten, blond German storm trooper, or the bloated soap-box Mussolini...
...with me." Said Grossadmiral Doenitz' lawyer: "My client would have a good chance to be acquitted if the judges were Allied naval officers." The other accused were feverishly working on defense arguments ranging from blaming it all on Hitler to proving that once they were kind to a Jew...
Bell's stock list for the Nascopie this year, radioed out of the north two months ago, occupies four closely typed long sheets. Items: tinted sun goggles, dolls, Florida water, girls' ski slacks, sewing machines, jew's-harps, thousands of pounds of plug tobacco, spruce poles for spear handles, blubber lamps...
...fellow teachers and several of her pupils testified that she had sneered at Italian-Americans as "greasy foreigners," had declared tolerance "bunk," and said that "democracy would never succeed in America." The principal charge: that Miss Quinn had written on the blackboard six sentences out of a Jew-baiting leaflet, The First Americans. These sentences overgenerously credited Irish-Americans with killing the first Jap, sinking the first battleship, carrying out the first FT raid, bagging the first Jap plane, capturing the first German spy, winning the first presidential citation. She left out the anti-Semitic punch line, but her critics...