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...Women. The defendants sat in their long dock, three rows deep, large identification numbers on their chests, listening impassively. The 26 men were grave and sodden. The 19 women kept an insolent composure. There was prune-faced Juana Borman (whose wolfhound liked to tear prisoners to pieces). There was wispy-haired Anna Hampel (who, according to one witness, had a crush on a French internee. "She tried to flirt with him, but he was reluctant, so she beat him all the time...
Careful Case. "What have you to say for yourself, Herr Quisling?" asked the Presiding Judge when cross-examination began. Quisling started from sodden composure, looked out across the heads of the intent, silent courtroom crowd...
Obviously, the remedy was to separate the active U-235 from natural uranium, getting rid of the U-238. It was simple in principle, like drying the water content out of a sodden fuel. But the physicists shuddered when they finished their calculations. No chain reaction, they found, could take place in a small bit of U-235, but a large enough chunk would surely explode...
This book is his effort to carry out the resolution he made in Athens-to survive and speak out. It is a damning document. Sometimes its sodden weight of human malevolence, its recurrent three-note theme of jailed, tried, shot, is all but unbearable. One little story, a tiny detail of suffering, could stand for the whole tragedy that it highlights. Marshal Tukhachevsky's twelve-year-old daughter was not informed that he had been liquidated overnight. But when she got to school the next day, the other children shouted abuse at her and refused...
...dealer once proposed having one of his sculptures cast, Degas became violent. "Have it cast! Bronze is all right for those who work for eternity. My pleasure consists in beginning over & over again. Like this . . ." he shouted, and seizing a nearly finished clay dancer, mashed it into a sodden lump...