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Wiesenthal also criticizes Israeli secret-service chief Isser Harel, whose memoirs did not mention Wiesenthal's contributions to the capture of Eichmann. (The story of that raid is vividly told in a new memoir by the actual capturer, Eichmann in My Hands, by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein, to be published in May by Warner Books.) Other Wiesenthal targets include former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, a Jewish Socialist, for including four ex- Nazis in his first Cabinet, and Elie Wiesel, for not including a Gypsy on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council...
...front of Emerson Hall, one guide tells a story--one of the tour's staples--about another spring day when Gertrude Stein was taking a philosophy exam in a class taught by William James. Legend has it that Stein wrote on the top of the exam that she couldn't bear to take a test on such a beautiful day, and that she was going outside. James gave her an A, saying that she truly understood the meaning of philosophy...
...student's interest in a class, and thereforehis performance, depends on the interest one hasfor the reading material and the subject, not ontests," said John R. Stein...
...However, Stein said he has participated in manysmall study groups, and agrees with the report'sconclusion that they are helpful. He said theymade learning "fun and enjoyable...
...film of Enemies, a Love Story, is sure. There must have been a Holocaust, or Herman would not have hidden from it for most of the war. Now it is 1949, and he lives in New York with, eventually, three loving women: his Polish Gentile wife Yadwiga (Margaret Sophie Stein), whom he married out of gratitude for protecting him in the old country; his passionate mistress Masha (Lena Olin), whom the Holocaust has driven to a volcanic indecision between childbearing and suicide; and his long-lost first wife Tamara (Anjelica Huston), whom he had thought dead in the camps...