Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evaluates his professional past as well, from the vantage of the present. Under the service of a new American employer in the "real time" of the movie, Mr. Stevens reflects on the character of his former employer, Lord Darlington, a man involved with the policy of appeasement and the Nazi party, whom Mr. Stevens had trusted and served completely. The two objects of Mr. Stevens' reflection, the personal and the professional, are shown to have conflicted at several points in Mr. Stevens' past, a time in which he invariably prioritized the professional. Now, though the search for a new housekeeper...
...surfaces on the screen. In another misguided attempt to create unity, the American millionaire by whom Stevens is currently employed is conflated with another character, the American politician named Lewis. The congressman, played by Christopher Reeves, is endowed, in the film, with the role of sole crusader against the Nazis. The material in the book which suggests that his motives might be no less polluted than those of the other pro-Nazi characters, is deleted in the movie, and he is depicted truly as a superman...
...totalitarian government creates whole subclasses of clones designed expressly for particular tasks. As Annas pointed out, there are better ways to create a crack Navy SEAL team or an astronaut corps than to clone the appropriate mix of sperm and egg and wait 20 years. "Maybe if this were Nazi Germany, we would worry more about the government," said Annas. "But we're in America, where we have the private market. We don't need government to make the nightmare scenario come true...
This week the Harvard Film Archive brings us "Docteur Petiot," the chilling, fact-based story of a physician turned serial killer during the chaotic days of Nazi occupation in Paris. Seamlessly uniting art and reality, Dr. Petiot borrows elements of documentary, horror and black comedy to unveil the evil of the "good doctor...
...article in The Crimson, many students were outraged. Westfield student government secretary Kelly O'Neill wrote in an editorial, "When something is offensive or slanderous, it should not be said or printed." Another student, Owen Broadhurt, likened it to printing an ad for "the Ku Klux Klan, American Nazi Party, D'Aubisson death squads, or similar hideous miscreants...