Word: star
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jonathan Swift's--30 Boylston St., Cambridge. Telephone 661-9887. Tickets at door. Catch a Rising Star Talent show. Sundays, 9:30 p.m. $100 first prize. potential contestants call 661-7720 for information...
...look at a king, then a kid can look up to a queen, particularly if the kid is Ricky Schroder, 9. Properly togged in midget tuxedo, the star of The Champ met Queen Elizabeth II at the film's London premiere. Whether, when the lights went down, the Queen sobbed like others who have seen Ricky on-screen remained a royal secret...
EXPLODING STAR: A YOUNG AUSTRIAN AGAINST HITLER by Fritz Molden Morrow; 280 pages...
...away. When the cattle cars with their human cargoes rumbled off for Auschwitz, where were the righteous in the Third Reich? Each of these three books seeks answers, and in sum they are heartening. Fritz Molden, himself a fighter in the Austrian resistance, puts it best in Exploding Star: "Where there are people who disrupt, destroy and torture there are also, beyond all doubt, others who help, heal and support...
...voices to protest the dispossession and the expulsion of the Jews. "The greater majority of the population," writes Maass candidly, "were either too indifferent or too scared to act with defiance." There were about 200,000 Jews in Vienna at the time who were, explains Molden in Exploding Star, "a powerful concentration of gifted, ambitious . . . hard-working people." Their domination of the press, the theater, medicine and law "materially contributed to the spread of anti-Semitism in Austria...