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...school or work. A more common reaction is to overachieve, with little sense of accomplishment or pleasure. The attitude, says Davis, is "Whatever I do it's never enough to make up for your loss." Either way, the survivor child is likely to feel isolated. Says Miriam Schiller, whose mother survived the Warsaw ghetto and Auschwitz: "When I was very little, all my parents' friends were survivors. Even among American Jews, I was an isolationist. I always felt separate from the people around...
...Leni Riefenstahl, the epic cinematic poet of Nazism. An array of swastikas lined the Reichs-sportfeld in the vast, mystic excess of the genre; Hitler jugend glowed in the golden well-being of their Aryamsm. At the nighttime finale, reported The New Yorkers Janet Planner "a giant chorus sang Schiller's words to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; overhead, 17 searchlights from far outside the arena made a lofty birdcage of streaming light beams. Imagine if television had been there to catch the spectacle in color and beam it by satellite to a world of viewers...
...difficult to tell entirely whether Mailer or various tape recorders are to be congratulated for The Executioner's Song. Mailer seems to have undertaken the project mostly for money. He never met Gilmore but acquired an immense pile of tapes from a hustler named Larry Schiller, the entrepreneur who had earlier promoted deals involving Jack Ruby, Marilyn Monroe and Susan Atkins of the Manson gang. Mailer spent additional weeks interviewing Gilmore's family, his girlfriend Nicole Barrett, and surrounding bit players...
...Unmarried Woman: Aspects of Spinsterhood in Ante-Bellum New England--Lee Chambers--Schiller, associate professor of History, University of Colorado, Agassiz House...
...actress in the world," though Siobhan McKenna would be my own choice. Still, Worth is indisputably in the top handful, and I have never found her less than impressive whether in classical or modern drama. The performances that she and Eva Le Gallienne gave in the 1957 production of Schiller's Mary Stuart are two of the half dozen supreme feats I have seen an actress achieve on stage...