Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The story of the Gunthers is wholly symbolic. Real hero of the play is the American outlook, its love of enterprise and liberty. This is an inspiring theme. But working crudely, emotionally, in headlines, Kaufman & Hart over-sentimentalize their theme. Canny showmen, they know that if, as Dr. Johnson said...
Gallant lost causes leave sad aftermaths, and one of the saddest is the plight of the broken leaders. London last week was the temporary refuge of a Robert E. Lee and a Jefferson Davis of the late Republic of Czechoslovakia. They are Eduard Benes and Jan Masaryk, two men who...
According to Butterfield the two Princeton professors, feeling secretly inferior, took refuge subconsciously in aphasia to remove their abulia. They tried to rid themselves of their inferior feeling and increase their inferior felling and increase their own ego by calling Princeton men, "Style-setting, smooth, gentlemanly, loyal-to-college, and...
"It would be a grave misunderstanding of the problem to think that the only question is how to find a refuge for a tormented minority, or that even this problem can be solved by removing a half million Jews from the Reich. If any one doubts that this is not...
"The problem is utterly insoluble, except in a small number of individual cases, if it is looked upon as requiring no more than the finding of a haven of refuge for the immediate victims of the most calculated cruelty. . . ."