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...viewpoint on his experiences. According to Vrba, the international Zionist movement was a key reason that the Nazis were so successful in their effort to annihilate the Jews of Europe. He holds that the Zionists believed in sacrificing the main part of European Jewry in order to salvage a remnant, an elite, which would then establish a Jewish state in Palestine...
...major thesis of the Kilsonian analysis is that black cultural separatism is anti-achievement in orientation, therefore it minimizes the intellectual performance of blacks. This black cultural separatism is a remnant of the ideologically-filled sixties. It is invisibly imposed in order to provide self-security of blacks and institutional leverage over a variety of campus operations. The repercussions of this cultural behavior are national in scope and are manifest on the undergraduate and graduate levels. He concludes that the future quality of the black elites and professionals are at stake. The situation can be rectified by breaking down these...
...fort, Francois might have gone to the fort. He was drawn to the fort in his blackest moods. It was in ruins now, a remnant of the almost-glories of Napoleon III. We often found Francois there leaning against the rocks, making his own comfort out of fantasies of destruction. I circled the slimy stones. He was not there...
...been willing to accept the practices even after they saw that they were wrong. Most Americans in the first half of the 19th century accepted slavery, just as most Americans in the first half of the 1960s supported the Indochina war. In each case, there was a saving remnant which did not accept its part in such crimes. and there were a few people--John Brown and Karleton Armstrong, for example--who felt they had to do all they could to stop them, even if they ran a risk of injuring or even killing people who might be innocent...
Some 200 years later, royalty's ragged remnant as well as the restless rich and those who aspire to such status still crave an invitation to Versailles. They are even willing to pay $235 a head for a floor show and supper in the now-termite-infested palace. Of course, the servants must be bewigged, the brocade and baubles as abundant as in the days of Louis and Marie. And so it was last week, thanks to a whim of American Fashion Publicist Eleanor Lambert...