Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's International Forum he created "a minor scandal" when he illustrated a lecture on the "New Wave" by showing Alain Resnais' Night and Fog, the movie about Nazi concentration camps that Ivy Films also presented to the public a few weeks...
Answering a question from the audience, Nizer, one of the most successful trial lawyers in the United States, said he could not represent or "argue with passion or sincerity for a man if I despise him--if he is a Nazi or traitor or subversive...
...humanitarian. He works for the Third Reich, but he hates it. For one thing, his Jewish mistress has been hauled off to prison. For another, he is sickened by the brutality at the concentration camp where he is stationed. Steinbaum is on the verge of joining an anti-Nazi conspiracy when he makes the mistake of going to a party held by a high Nazi official in an elegant château. The symbol of Nazi Germany, Author von Abele suggests, is not an armed camp or an insane asylum but this grand, lurid party in which decent men lose...
People are beasts, in Andorra, for committing or permitting atrocities like the Nazi massacre of the Jews and then disowning responsibility for it. They are beasts, in The Firebugs, for giving arsonists the houseroom and the matches to set the world ablaze while they dunderheadedly pursue business as usual. The paradoxical difficulty is that Frisch hopes to arouse the conscience of the beast after demonstrating at tedious length that the beast has no conscience...
...Germany in 1937 and landed a job on a petroleum publication in London. By feverish effort, he learned the tangled ramifications of world oil, emigrated to the U.S. in 1941. There, his talents won him a presidential citation for work as a wartime Government adviser. One achievement: pinpointing Nazi oil targets for the Air Force by tedious study of German railroad freight rate reductions. In postwar assignments he had a key role in charting U.S. oil policy, and opened his own one-man consulting service in 1949. His counsel has been sought by almost all major U.S. oil companies, including...