Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GLASS BOOTH. Actor-Author Robert Shaw introduces some precarious psychologizing and implausible "what-if" elements to an Eichmann-like situation in a rerun of the victimization of the Jews and Nazi guilt. Donald Pleasence enlivens an otherwise turgid evening with a memorable performance...
Before the week ended, everyone was shouting angrily at everyone else. Those teachers who crossed the picket lines in an effort to keep some 400 of the city's 900 schools limping along with skeleton staffs ran into a bitter barrage of invective. "Commies!" "Fascists!" "Nazi Lovers!" "Nigger Lovers!" shouted the highly confused strikers, many of them veterans of years of tortured teaching in the city's ghetto schools. Mayor John Lindsay, wearing a yarmulke, was jeered and insulted in a Brooklyn synagogue by a teacher-dominated audience as he tried to explain his stand on the strike...
...West German government's commendable attempt to pay reparations to the victims of Nazi cruelty is the most remarkable effort in history to treat sin as crime and then atone for it in cash. In absolute terms, the whole idea is preposterous: How can one recompense a man for his own death? And though payments, of course, are made to next of kin, the Wiedergutmachung (literally "making good again") is a legal anomaly that intentionally permits all sorts of quasi-legal advantages to the claimants. It is a "beautiful piece of liberal and humane legislation," as one of Lionel...
This moral terrain, though fascinating, is often overwrought in literature. And Davidson's low-key philosophic inquiry, conducted in a wonderfully conversational tone and decked out with the trappings of an international suspense tale, runs the risk of seeming schematic or frivolous. He produces a rich victim of Nazi terror who, it turns out, may not be dead after all. The story deals in breathless comings and goings across the Central Europe of today and yesterday-yesterday in this case being 1939, just before Hitler's "final solution" was set in motion. Davidson detours into the painfully recollected...
Grunwald sees the Nazi horrors less as crimes against the Jews than sins against life itself. Such sins, he observes, are atonable, if at all, only in heaven-and only through a sense of guilt. The Germans, he believes, feel none. "How is it possible for them to make good again?" he asks. "The dead they can't repay. The dead family without an heir they can't repay. If they'd managed to kill every member of every family, they'd have nothing to repay...