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The contrast with Kennedy's earlier bumbling performance could not be more startling. Last fall and early winter, he sometimes seemed to lose his concentration in the middle of a speech and wander through rambling, almost incoherent sentences. Now he raps out short, crisp remarks, sometimes punching at the air...
These statements disavowing Nazism are contained in a rambling account of his life that Eichmann wrote in prison while awaiting the results of an appeal of his conviction. (The appeal was rejected by Israel's Supreme Court, and on May 31, 1962, he was executed by hanging.) The apparent...
Portions of the memoir will be contained in an updated Hebrew edition of Hausner's 1966 book on the trial, Justice in Jerusalem, which will be published in Israel this March. Hausner, who is now chairman of the Yad Vashem memorial to Holocaust victims in Jerusalem, feels the entire...
RAMBLING TO GAMBLING
Throughout, Beaton writes with a gift for image and metaphor. One woman has skin "as bright and smooth as the inside of a shell"; another "exudes the friendliness and sympathy of a firelit tea in winter." Virginia Woolf compared her diary to a "disheveled, rambling plant." Beaton's is...