Word: realm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baseline for the discussion of evil, the ne plus ultra. But as Ron Rosenbaum writes in his restlessly probing and deeply intelligent book Explaining Hitler (Random House; 444 pages; $30), Hitler has escaped intellectual capture. The old tabloid survival myth (HITLER ALIVE IN ARGENTINA!) perversely comes true in the realm of our historical deliberations. "The search for Hitler," says Rosenbaum, "has apprehended not one coherent, consensus image of Hitler but rather many different Hitlers, competing Hitlers, conflicting embodiments of competing visions...
...Hitler. In this brilliantly skeptical inventory of the world's Hitler-thinking, Rosenbaum analyzes not only the multiple Hitler theories but also the agendas and fantasies that the theorizers bring to their subject. His book may be useful to the surprising number of people--Flat-Earthers of the moral realm--who, even now, refuse to believe in the existence of evil. To them, admitting evil's reality seems to empower the irrational in an intolerable way, to give it a certain vulgar, primitive mystification. We can't have that...
...brother's story too. With 152,000 tickets sold at $15.70 apiece, the earl will be bringing in nearly $2.4 million. Much of the world is aware of how expensive it is to be an earl and master of one of the more historic properties in the realm. It is costly too to deal with a scandalous divorce. So, Spencer declares, he will tithe to charity, and the accounts will be audited...
...rumschpringes is a kind of prolonged joyride, one last opportunity for them to romp in the pleasures of the "real world" before time runs out and the church, and adult baptism, beckons. During this period of indulgence, it's understood that teenagers tread, oh, so lightly, into the realm of dating; that the boys are likely to answer the siren call of a well-tuned engine (forbidden to baptized churchgoers); and that a few might even dabble in smoking and drinking. The teenagers join "gangs" and cavort with one another at hoedowns or barn dances. Police say the Stoltzfuses...
...management business than he thought. Most of the matters he spouts off about in the course of the day are less important than what pundits spout off about: the direction of the efforts of a few dozen people rather than the direction of Western civilization. However, in this smaller realm, what he spouts actually affects the course of events--at least sometimes. Once he masters this management stuff, maybe it will happen more often...