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Danilewitz and Nelson recount at length Arafat's history of terrorism and berate Harvard for, in their extravagant parlance, wining and dining a monster. After much mention of blood-stained hands, blood-drenched carpets, "bloody exercises in civilian warfare" and the "bloodshed of his all-too-recent career," they declare that Harvard has unpardonably stepped over the boundary between pursuing peace with Arafat and legitimizing...
This is the man responsible for engineering the "Zionism equals Racism" resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. This is the man responsible for more than a decade of airplane bombings and hijackings, attacks on school buses, murdered soldiers and brutalized civilians. This is a monster...
Such longueurs flaw the book, but not fatally. Sereny has probably captured Speer's aloof, elusive persona as well as any writer could. She also usefully reminds that Hitler, for all the evil he inflicted, was not a cartoon monster but a man with immense charisma and even some charm. Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth has a rightful place in any library of writings about the Third Reich...
...forms. The familiar 1952 story Lance sends up science fiction whose "Star tsars, directors of Galactic Unions, are practically replicas of those peppy, red-haired executives in earthy earth jobs." The little-known 1924 tale The Dragon turns mythology into satiric social commentary by casting a fabled fire-breathing monster as the dupe in a tobacco-advertising campaign...
Deploring the "monster" of sports in America today, Richard "Digger" Phelps, former head basketball coach at the University of Notre Dame, discussed reforming intercollegiate athletics and using sports to keep children of America's cities away from drugs and violence in a speech last night at the Harvard Education Forum...