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Nonetheless, what the production lacked in polish it made up for in sheer energy, projecting an exuberance that was ultimately irresistible. It also had a big plus in its leading man: Tim Arnold was perfect as the matador whose puffed-up complacency gives way to an amiable cluelessness with the onset of his amnesia. He even succeeded in making El Bean's smitten shyness around Ana engagingly dopey without degenerating into complete farce...
...writes Peretz in The Crimson, "is this a book with which scholars think they need to grapple." This, too, is true, since every single scholar who did his or her homework in the German federal Archives or Polish archives confirmed what I wrote in An Eye for an Eye, confirmed it in three major newspapers and one major newsmagazine. Others who did their lessons and who confirmed what I wrote are the former foreign editor of The New York Times and the many researchers for "60 Minutes", whose "once-over-lightly," as Peretz calls it, took them eight months...
...what I have written about it, is part of the written record. I am, therefore, not going to replay it all again, any more than to convey here what the central theme of Sack's book is: that a conspiracy of secret Jews (passing as non-Jews) controlled the Polish security services after the war and brought about the deportation of millions and the killing of tens of thousands of ethnic Germans as a way of "revenging" themselves for the Holocaust. Jews working as Stalin's self-appointed "hounds of hell" (Stalin, the vicious anti-Semite, is portrayed by Sack...
...principal agent in this drama is not the Polish state implementing its brutal policy to secure its western regions by expelling the ethnic Germans who populated it, but "Jewish" wrath manipulating the duped Poles. This is the "untold story of Jewish revenge" which Sack and his American publisher claimed had been suppressed for so long, seemingly by yet another conspiracy, and which the heroic Sack has, against all odds, brought to light for the world. Before printing Sack's attack on me, did The Crimson know that, whatever the nuggets of fact may be, around which Sack weaves his overheated...
Following the collapse of communism, the workers of the world, from Polish shipyard electricians to American phone-company executives, are at last united, brought together by a shared anxiety about how they will earn a living. They have reason to worry. Unfettered competition, no longer constrained by political borders, now ruthlessly wipes out slow-footed firms. In order to survive, companies give their first allegiance to efficiency and profits, not to their employees or the communities in which they live and work. In the long run, more wealth is created for everyone, but that is cold comfort for the skilled...