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...Hebrew Bible is depicted as the faithful protector of his chosen people. Yet at least 6,000,000 Jews died at the hands of the Nazis. To believe in the God of the Covenant today, concludes Richard L. Rubenstein, Jews must affirm that their creator "used Adolf Hitler as the rod of his wrath to send his people to the death camps. I find myself utterly incapable of believing this. Even the existentialist leap of faith cannot resurrect this dead God after Auschwitz...
...play Murder in the Cathedral and Jean Anouilh's play and film Becket examined the irresistible character who, upon slipping into clerical garb, warned his King that he would serve his new divine master as faithfully as he had served his old human one. He became a devoted protector of church rights and, inevitably, a resolute enemy of his monarch. Richard Winston, a translator who has also written a biography of Charlemagne, has produced an exceptionally clear and precise account of that momentous confrontation. In his hands, the antagonists emerge not only as complicated personalities who fall victim...
...critique charges that the United States is "the major counter-revolutionary force in a revolutionary world." It claims that "only one point of view is really being offered in the lectures and assigned reading of History 164b--that the U.S. has been the protector of the Western and underdeveloped world from Communist domination...
Louise's Blunder. The mayoral rivals, Louise Hicks, 48, and Massachusetts Secretary of State Kevin White, 37, are both Irish Democrats, and for most of the campaign the issue though muted, was racial. Mrs. Hicks had established herself as the protector of Boston's lower-middle-class whites against forced school integration and black assertiveness in general. While Williams-educated White is no racial radical, he was clearly sympathetic to the ghetto's troubles...
...preceding months Trotsky had been deserted and renounced by some of his closest associates, including his Mexican protector and benefactor, the painter Diego Rivera. And in May, 1940, Trotsky's home was subjected to an armed-raid, apparently at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. Around 4 a.m. a group of assailants broke into Trotsky's home and pumped about 200 machine gun bullets into Trotsky's bedroom. Although the attack left him miraculously unharmed Trotsky became increasingly concerned about his own safety and the safety of his papers...