Word: mr
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...always on the side of justice, always on the side of memory, against the SS and against what they represent." He said that he was convinced that "you were not aware of the presence of SS graves in the Bitburg cemetery . . . But now we all are aware. May I, Mr. President, if it's possible at all, implore you to do something else, to find another way, another site. That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims...
...against millions of Jews, and suggested dryly that "a more appropriate gesture of reconciliation be found." In the House, New York Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz charged, "This is the most monumental error of judgment by the President since he assumed office." Asked another New York Democrat, Congressman Ted Weiss, "Mr. President, where is your sense of history? Where is your sense of decency...
...days ago, on the anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, all of us Americans watched with dismay and anger as the Soviet Union and East Germany distorted both past and present history. Mr. President, I was there. I was there when American liberators arrived. And they gave us back our lives...
Senegal-born, U.S.-raised Akon starts his tale of abandonment with typical woe. Then the chorus--a sample of Bobby Vinton's Mr. Lonely, played at Chipmunk speed--arrives, and the song turns into a joke about self-pity. A rare R&B hit with a hint of self-awareness...
...University of Chicago, he wrote for a local Socialist journal,the Soapbox; in the '40s, he was on the fringes of theleftish Partisan Review crowd. Two decades later, he found himself at odds with the student movement, anathematized by radicals as a reactionary--the eponymous émigré intellectual of Mr. Sammler's Planet. In the late '80s, when the culture wars erupted, the Nobel laureate was forced to defend the canon of Western literature against "politically correct" students and professors eager to indict that tradition as a syllabus of dead white males. But he actually belonged to no faction, identified...