Word: rosenbaum
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...Before Hitler, we thought we had sounded the depths of human nature," argues Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler. "He showed how much lower we could go, and that's what was so horrifying. It gets us wondering not just at the depths he showed us but whether there is worse to come." The power of Hitler was to confound the modernist notion that judgments about good and evil were little more than matters of taste, reflections of social class and power and status. Although some modern scholars drive past the notion of evil and instead explain Hitler's conduct...
...world's people? Here is a place to draw the line. "It may be true that we've got great medical breakthroughs, radar, sonar because of war," says theologian Marty, "but I don't like to make a theology out of that; it's an accidental product." Rosenbaum agrees that to focus on the benefits is to risk trivializing the tragedy itself. "There are a lot of people who want to say God was teaching us a lesson--evil is there so that we can learn by struggling against it. I find it kind of barbaric to envision...
...than genius, creativity, courage or generosity? The century has offered characters who stretched our understanding and faith in those qualities as well. The heroes not only defeated Hitler; they provided our lasting inspiration as well. "Just as Hitler made us believe we hadn't yet sounded the depths," notes Rosenbaum, "maybe Martin Luther King Jr. and the great artists of the century, like Nabokov, help us believe there are still heights we haven't found...
...Rambert Courtney D. Rein Sara D. Reistad-Long Philip B. Renton Jed I. Resnick John T. Reuland Spencer G. Rhodes Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Emily A. Rippe Paula C. Ro Ann S. Robinson Julie A. Roden Jocelyn M. Rodgers Elizabeth H. Roemer Nicholas W. Rose Eric S. Rosen Laura E. Rosenbaum Brian J. Rosenthal David E. Rosow Caroline A. Rothert Marina B. Rubin Roee E. Rubinstein Ismail G. Ruiz Robyn Sackeyfio Daniel K. Salomon Saloni K. Saraiya Claudio A. Sauer Maureen K. Schad Kristi L. Schaeffer Ryan G. Schaffer Robert E. Schlesinger Vanessa A. Schlueter Alexandra V. Schmitz Robert S. Schwartz...
...Fowler, Winifred M. Li, Margot L. Minardi, Thomas G. Saunders and Lauren A. Wetzler of Eliot House; Carl W. Davis and Laura T. Lee of Kirkland House; Jeremy P. Condit and James A. Hunter of Leverett House; Henry C. Fu, Albert C. Ju, Emma F. Phillips, Laura E. Rosenbaum, Randy Z. Wu and Yu Yasufuku of Lowell House; Chenghuan Chu, Ari M. Lipman, Nicholas R. Parrillo, Dmitry Sagalovskiy and Derek D. Smith of Mather House; Alice H. Pritikin and Hannah K. Reid Weiss of Pforzheimer House; Baer, Kentaro Fujita, David G. Harris, Matthew P. Humbaugh, Benjamin A. Rahn, Saloni...