Word: melnick
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...hand that has approached the diary with the well-meaning intention of publicizing it has contributed to the subversion of history," charged novelist Cynthia Ozick in a recent New Yorker article in which she claimed the diary has been "falsified, kitschified and, in fact, blatantly and arrogantly denied." Ralph Melnick, author of The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank, contends that the play so carefully avoids the particulars of the Jews' plight under Hitler that it almost becomes "a drama of people who were suffering through a housing shortage...
Will the play's detractors be satisfied? Ozick hasn't seen this version but is hopeful that the changes will remedy a play that has been "deeply damaging to the world's psyche" because it found rays of light in a historical event that offers "only darkness." Melnick, who has seen it, finds the new version better but still historically flawed. (The staging of the Franks' arrest, he points out, was more factually accurate in the old version.) The rest of us can simply appreciate that a Broadway drama still has the power to move us, and to cause...
...case method that the Business School is based upon is a field-based system, so our faculty travels around the world," said Rick Melnick, Travel Board representative from the Business School...
...Melnick is working on a satellite which will measure aspects of star formation and interstellar chemistry, expected to be launched in two years. He says the project's schedule sharply contrasts current NASA plans such as the Hubbell space telescope, which even after appearing late failed to work properly...
...NASA projects have had a habit of taking one or two decades to come to fruition," Melnick says. "This experiment is intended to show that NASA can get back to what it was doing in the 1960s...