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...mindless cog in the Nazi machine. He was an individual who liked his job and did it well. When Himmler ordered Eichmann near the end of the war to halt the deportation of Hungarian Jews, the outraged bureaucrat threatened to appeal the decision to Hitler. In his own smaller sphere, Jepsen too has a sense of duty that goes beyond the letter of an individual order. "They say you're doing more than anybody's supposed to, anyway more than duty demands of you," a neighbor tells Jepsen. "You don't know what they expect from me, the whole...
...safeguard their freedom. National Socialism canonized cliches but pulverized thoughts. The cultural shell was reinforced by official approval, constant repetition, and deliberate concessions to popular taste. For example, when the Nazis banned Expressionist art, most Germans nodded approvingly. Would most Americans act differently today? "Art is not a sphere of life that exists for itself, which must defend itself against the invasion of the people. Art is a function of the life of the people and the artist its blessed endower of meaning." Only an intellectual would object to these fine words of Goebbels. And many intellectuals would agree...
Bingham delivered exposed films to the Soviets by leaving them at one of seven "dead drops" in or near the town of Guildford, including a tree, a hollow under a bridge, and a car door in a rural trash heap. In turn, the Soviets left a "parcel"-a hollow sphere made of putty and shaped like a stone, containing a fresh supply of film, instructions and sometimes money...
...monopoly on financial resources would remain. The new "naive users" (as they say in the trade) would remain within a circumscribed sphere--chiefly academics and military men who know nothing about computers--and protest groups would still be left out. Certain "neighborhood groups" could gain access to government or university computers, but only if they were moderate enough to get financial assistance from the government, and not to threaten the computer-owner. Pool, for example, is conducting a seminar on computerizing land-use data for Cambridge Model Cities. But a more militant group--such as a tenant organization protesting university...
...letter dated October 4 and released by the White House last week, Wiesner wrote. "With these steps you have opened up opportunities for creative movement where much less existed before. In both the economic sphere and in the search for rational international arrangements, your courageous steps will be landmarks...