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...confuses the issue of individual responsibility for the deportation. The hero is, in fact, a thoroughly self-indulgent overprivileged youth, whose motivations fluctuate between a need to shore up his self-esteem by playing at heroism and a desire to seduce helpless Jewesses to whom he appears as a savior. Once Paul has induced Jeanne to accompany him, he promptly makes a pass at her. What more auspicious moment for commencing a beautiful relationship than immediately after Jeanne has seen her family loaded onto a deportation bus, her apartment looted by anti-semitic neighbors, and the streets thronged with police...
Pipes's failure to discuss the rising proletariat is his most serious omission. In the end, his conservative bias leads him to overlook the savior in Russian history he was looking for. And with this error, it is no wonder that his Russia remained the vast, backward, absolutist country it had been for centuries...
...Prescott College, an experimental school in Arizona. The college was $440,000 in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. Thus, when Lowther agreed to pay the school's operating costs in return for control of its board and operating capital, the college thought it had found a savior and tentatively agreed to the deal. But soon $105,000 in foundation checks to the college bounced, and-for the first time-it was discovered that Lowther had been convicted of stock fraud in 1970. Prescott officials called the Illinois attorney general's office...
...Christmas party for the next week as a sort of culmination of their efforts so far; an organization that is as important to them for its emotional impact as for the concrete benefits they are confident it will bring. But the group's two main themes--union as economic savior and union as a restorer of personal dignity and solidarity--are inextricably linked, each one inevitably leading into the other. The distinction between the group's friendships and organizing activities is anything but rigid...
...vote, and after 16 years in the Elysée, the party saw the presidency go to a non-Gaullist, former Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Many Gaullists are now turning to another non-Gaullist who, paradoxically, they think may be the savior of their movement. He is Michel Jobert, 53, who, as Georges Pompidou's last Foreign Minister, was a frequent critic of both Henry Kissinger and the Common Market. Jobert's recently published political memoirs, proudly nationalistic and subtly anti-American, have created a sensation in France...