Word: refugee
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Exiles and Emigres," the exhibition running through May 11 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is a fine example of a genre that often and easily goes wrong: the politically didactic art show. Its curator, Stephanie Barron, in 1991 created a survey named "Degenerate Art." Her subject then...
...four children in the family but turned back the five adults, who were caught, delivered to the Gestapo and imprisoned. When the U.S. Army closed in on Germany, my father succeeded in escaping, but other family members, along with other prisoners, were shot. You mentioned that 30,000 Jewish refugees were turned away at the Swiss border. An equal number of political refugees must have shared that fate. HELMUT SCHMIDT Orgeval, France...
According to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Harvard Yard Manager Muerle Bicknell, the new lights and phones have been installed primarily because of safety concerns, but also because students wanted to be able to contact the shuttle service directly from Johnston Gate. We are pleased with the...
The moviemakers therefore create a character named Mann (Ving Rhames), who drifts into town on horseback just as the tragedy is beginning to unfold. In essence, he's the mysterious stranger of a thousand westerns, eager to avoid conflict but miraculously adept at the killing arts when he is finally...
Unless he has adapted to the new era, as has the one who calls himself Juvenal in writer-director Paul Schrader's sly and nicely understated adaptation of novelist Elmore Leonard's Touch. Played by Skeet Ulrich, he has done time in the wilderness, suffers the stigmata and can cure...