Word: kampf
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Most TV-bashers are book-lovers. They think books are the greatest, and that if everybody spent their time reading books rather than watching TV, the world would be a better place. But what if everyone was reading Harlequin romances, Taxes: How to Avoid Your Fair Share, or Mein Kampf? That wouldn't be so great...
There is no point in being too reverent about books. Mein Kampf was -- is -- a book. Still, some books have the virtue of being processed through an intelligence. Writers make universes. To enter that creation gives the reader some intellectual dignity and a higher sense of his possibilities. The dignity encourages relief and acceptance. The universe may be the splendid, twittish neverland of P.G. Wodehouse (escape maybe, but a steadying one) or Anthony Trollope's order, or Tolkien's. I know a married couple who got through a tragic time by reading Dickens to each other every night. Years...
...ROLE OF CONTENT in the worth of the work of art can be best illustrated by a less controversial example. Few would find fault if a prize were awarded to Richard Wright's Black Boy rather than to Mein Kampf. In these cases, judges must consider the total value the work presents to the viewer or reader and whether they feel morally justified in promoting the work and the beliefs that are inextricably bound...
WHEN a line from Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf appeared in the Dartmouth Review's masthead on Yom Kippur, conservatives across the country picked sides. Some right-wingers, including William F. Buckley, rallied to the paper's defense, calling the incident a fake and the Dartmouth equivalent of the Tawana Brawley case. Others argued that the Review's patently offensive tactics discredited a more thoughtful conservative voice...
...issue published on the eve of Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, the Review's masthead featured a quotation from Hitler's Mein Kampf, which read as follows: "I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord's work...