Word: jew
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...book has its flaws. Martin Luther was a Jew hater, but he deserves better than the rushed hatchet job Carroll delivers in attempting to maintain his focus on Catholicism. And the author, a former priest and staunch left-wing Catholic who offers his work "as my personal penance to God, to the Jewish dead and to my children," is not content just to document the stain on his church. He sees anti-Semitism as intimately entwined with issues of Catholic power and authority, and devotes his last 70 pages to a call for a "Vatican Council III" to pursue such...
DIED. VICTOR BORGE, 91, hammy pianist and conductor whose one-man Broadway show, Comedy in Music, ran a record 849 performances; in Greenwich, Conn. Borge originally trained as a concert pianist in his native Denmark, but eventually began incorporating satire and sight gags into his act. A Jew, he fled Europe to escape the Nazis, arriving in the U.S. speaking no English but ultimately perfecting his act to gain worldwide acclaim...
...what a strange story one guest had to tell---of a great public intellectual, a Jew and survivor of Nazi death camps, who eventually became friends, long after the war, with a powerful French politician. They discussed literature, philosophy, metaphysics. Then late in the politician's life it came out that for a time during the Second World War the politician had worked in the Vichy government. It came out he had been a friend of a monstrous collaborator with the blood of many French Jews on his hands...
...mention this history in order to introduce my real subject - the infinitely civilized, decent, and human Michel de Montaigne, sometime mayor of Bordeaux and inventor of the modern essay. Montaigne, a Catholic whose mother was a Jew, lived squarely in the middle of the religious wars, yet managed to survive them handsomely and even to be a friend to Henri of Navarre and Henri of Guise, not out of duplicity but out of sheer decency...
...very important that we do business with each other, but we should never limit ourselves to our own people. In this country you must understand that you're gonna run into an Italian, you're gonna run into a black, you're gonna run into a Jew. In Germany, maybe, it's all German people. You go to Russia there's no blacks, it's all Russian people. But it's not like that in America. I'm saying that because I don't want blacks to think they have to deal with themselves in order to be successful. That...