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...Marcel Ophuls' biting documentary, "The Sorrow and the Pity," probed deeply into the national anguish over wartime shame, but it was kept off the state-run television networks for a decade...
...attention for a Jew who left the faith to join the Catholic Church?" asks Marcel Poorthuis, a spokesman for the Dutch Catholic Council for Israel, of the Stein beatification. "A lack of sensitivity," declares Tullia Zevi, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities. Asks James Raphael Baaden, an American Jew who lives in London and is writing a book about Edith Stein: How can she be beatified as a Christian martyr if she died...
...with papier-mache rock, looks like Plato's cave built from a prefab kit) and a healthy dose of esthetic restiveness. "I try to be creative and earn money at it," she says. "But it's like being a painter and having a gun pointed at you. I envy Marcel Duchamp for just stopping. Though he had a rich wife." Hamnett's Buddhism keeps her on course ("I'm not into chanting, though I will occasionally when I want a parking space, which is naughty"), and her own vitality keeps her on the move. "Been there, seen that, done that...
...fellows for 1987-'88 will be: Elizabeth J. Bellamy, University of Alabama; Elisabeth Bronfen; University of Munich; Howard Brick, University of Chicago; Marcel Cornis-Pop, University of Northern Iowa; Robert O. Gjerdingen, Carelton College; Susan A. Keefe, Davidson College; Ellen F. Martin, Marymount Manhatten College; Carol J. Oja, Brooklyn College; Frederick S. Paxton, Connecticut College; Frances L. Restuccia, Boston College; Margaret Schabas, University of Colorado; Rhys F. Townsend, Clark University; Daniel Vickers, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Marc A. Weiner, Indiana University...
...Sorrow and the Pity, Marcel Ophuls' documentary of the French Occupation, the novel's barrage of impressions and opinions assaults, even implicates, the reader. Derisive voices chant an anti-Vichy song. A housewife prepares makeshift tea out of water and carrot tops. The odor of filth rises from the streets. Meanwhile, the heated voices of a cautious bourgeois and a young radical debate questions that offer no moral answers...