Word: nazi
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...like a runaway cement barge. First, McCall's Jewish wife jumps off a bridge after having her father's concentration-camp number tattooed on her arm; she wants to join Europe's murdered Jews. Conroy later inserts long sections about pogroms in czarist Russia, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi death camps to explain the suicide. They don't. The historical carpetbagging doesn't add much of anything to the novel except a few unnecessarily grisly shocks...
...sides on the important issues of the day. Seeing all sides of an issue must not entail an abandonment of the right to take a side. The great actors in history are great precisely because of the courage of their convictions: Lincoln as the Union split, Churchill as the Nazi menace spread. The ability of these men to see through the confusion of their times and stand for ideas, principles or nations was precisely what made them unusual...
...troops. When my mother escaped with her four underage children, there were only cattle cars available on the last train. Like Prager, I spent time in refugee camps. With a Polish father, a German mother and a grandfather named Abram, "Germans" such as us were about as responsible for Nazi atrocities as are today's Serb peasants for "ethnic cleansing." The community of man requires empathy for the suffering of all, free from concepts of race, nationality or religion. ELFRIEDE H. KRISTWALD Decatur, Georgia...
...thousands of NRA members who have joined paramilitary organizations, all with a deep-seated fear of the federal government, demonstrate a rejection of and withdrawal from society. A fundraising letter from a top NRA lobbyist calling federal law enforcers "jack-booted government thugs [wearing] Nazi bucket helmets and black storm-trooper uniforms" attests further to this alienation...
...City. Bush flipped the television coverage off and on, called his Secret Service detail chief for word from the disaster area. As it turned out, one victim had once been part of the Bush entourage: Al Whicher, a Secret Service man. Bush wrote in his letter, "He was no Nazi. He was a kind man, a loving parent, a man dedicated to serving his country -- and serve it well...