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...justifiable determination to see Eichmann punished for his monstrous past. Ben-Gurion seemed to be unaware of the inverse racism implicit in his claim that Israel, as "the only sovereign authority in Jewry," had the right to seek out criminals guilty of offenses against the "Jewish people" anywhere it could find them. And he seemed equally unaware or indifferent to the fact that the trial of Adolf Eichmann, as one U.S. official pointed out, "is going to cause a serious loss of world confidence in the objectivity of the Israeli government...
...another practicing panoramist, Lawrence Durrell, he says: "A bit like eating a box of soft chocolates." Too many writers, he feels, are munching chocolates instead of facing reality. At heart they fear science, and this keeps aggravating the crisis of the Two Cultures-what he regards as the monstrous gap between the "scientific culture" and the "traditional culture" led by "literary intellectuals." Snow feels that this gap (greater in Britain than in the U.S., where intellectuals tend to believe, sometimes too blindly, in the scientific method) threatens the West with a loss of practical strength and cultural creativity...
...really glad, she hastens to explain. She's just playing a game her father taught her, "the glad game." Object of the game: to find the silver lining in every cloud, the gold tooth in every shark. And Pollyanna plays the game with such a monstrous power of positive thinking that after two hours and 14 minutes under that relentless little ray of sunshine, the whole town she lives in is dissolved into a mile-wide meringue of mawkishness. At a big charity bazaar, they all sing America the Beautiful, and later somebody bursts out sobbing: "Just think...
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess, Nazi SS captain, may have been the most monstrous executioner in human history. By his own accounting, 2,000,000 Jews were gassed and cremated at the Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland during his term (1940-43) as commandant. While awaiting trial in a Polish prison in 1946 (he was condemned and hanged in early 1947), he wrote this autobiography, now published in the U.S. for the first time...
...Murder Box. Near book's end, Hoess says reflectively: "I see now that the extermination of the Jews was fundamentally wrong," not because it was morally monstrous, but simply as an error in tactics that brought "the hatred of the entire world" on Germany. Another statement of Hoess's makes it more difficult for the Germans who claim that they saw, heard or knew no evil of the murder camps. Says he: "When a strong wind was blowing, the stench of burning flesh was carried for many miles and caused the whole neighborhood to talk about the burning...