Word: survivor
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...what a strange story one guest had to tell---of a great public intellectual, a Jew and survivor of Nazi death camps, who eventually became friends, long after the war, with a powerful French politician. They discussed literature, philosophy, metaphysics. Then late in the politician's life it came out that for a time during the Second World War the politician had worked in the Vichy government. It came out he had been a friend of a monstrous collaborator with the blood of many French Jews on his hands...
...This monster was still alive---and still a friend of the politician! The Jewish survivor was bitterly astonished to think that the politician's hand that he had shaken at five in the afternoon might have been shaken at noon by the killer...
...When confronted, the politician blandly---bizarrely---insisted that he was genuinely the friend of both the Jewish survivor and the Nazi collaborator...
...give you amazing. How about the wild enthusiasm for the so-called reality TV shows. A producer of Survivor has just announced a new show called Combat Missions, in which the competitors go on life-threatening assignments but with "nonlethal weapons." Damn. Then there was surreality TV. On an immensely popular show called Crossing Over with John Edward, the host talks to the dead, unlike most of television, where the dead talk to us. Thank...
...resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire. He will replicate the ascent of man, all by his lonesome. He'll be Robinson Crusoe without Friday, Gilligan without the crew, Survivor without all those annoying other survivors...