Word: schindler
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Ever since the director hit it big with Jaws, people have been telling him to grow up. They want him to tackle more personal themes, to address adult subject matter, to please stop making Steven Spielberg movies. Perhaps Schindler's List, the Nazi-era drama he has already completed shooting for Christmas release, will satisfy those who want Spielberg to enter an auteur rehab clinic...
Keneally's romantic chauvinism runs wide and deep in his 20th work of fiction, which includes novels about the American Civil War (Confederates) and the Holocaust (Schindler's List). "City bad! Country good!" is the message never far from the heart of Kate's story. Were it not for the range of his talents, the temptation would be to compare Keneally to Larry McMurtry, the elegiast of the American suburb and Texas history. Both can go over the top and still keep readers asking "What next?" Especially Keneally, who can play it hot or cool, tragic or comic, without forgetting...
...solution to the risk of tragedies like Schindler's murder does not lie in continuing to legally sanction institutional bigotry. What is needed is a dramatic effort to overhaul attitudes. The end of anti-gay intolerance will not come with an executive order from the president, nor will it result from Senate panel hearings. It will occur only over a long period of time, just as racism is still being slowly eradicated from our social institutions...
...Schindler's death should not be cause to retreat from the battle for an inclusive military. But it is a frightening and powerful argument for caution. Anyone who views Schindler's murder as an isolated event that is unlikely to be imitated should listen to the sailors whose faces recently graced television screens nationwide...
...Allen Schindler's brutal murder resulted in part from an institutional setting that condones bigotry by codifying it into policy. The policy, and the attitudes it fosters, must change...