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...painful birth of Zimbabwe as a nation. While he traced the subtle web of oppression in Argentine life, McWhirter's most poignant revelations came from Jewish émigrés who survived Nazi concentration camps only to have relatives join "the disappeared ones," the term for those who vanish into the prisons and torture chambers of the state security police. Says McWhirter: "As they relived the storm warnings of their own trauma in Nazi Germany, it was again brought home to me how deeply the issue has wounded and divided the Jews of Argentina. They left from our conversations...
...that define the face tonally, without giving much information about it at all. "On that scale," Close points out, "a dot just can't be specific, it can't stand for individual hairs, it has to be very general." In the largest studies, the face may almost vanish in the welter of information, becoming ungraspable, as the original photograph never was. In between there are many thresholds of transition, where the changes of size alter the whole relationship, within the image, of photography (the source) to painting (the product). Sometimes, more recently, Close seems to abandon the grid...
...murdered on the night of Aug. 12, 1952. It was the Premier's last act of anti-Semitic paranoia, and he made certain that if his victims were barely known in life, they would be totally obliterated in death. It was not enough that the victims were to vanish from society, they were also to disappear from history...
...been almost 90 years since the historian Frederick Jackson Turner propounded his famous thesis about the end of the American frontier. But the worst part of the frontier never did vanish. Its violence, once tolerable in the vast spaces, has simply backed up into modern America, where it goes on blazing away...
...Keneally's story, and the war, move on, stability and independence vanish. He illustrates the end of autonomy in the Confederate army by focusing on the draftees, men too poor to buy their way out of conscription. Soldiers in the Virginia regiments, suddenly no longer heroes for their land, become prisoners of the Confederate cause. Back home, the Southern women, who began the war as loyal and self-sufficient matriarchs, lose faith and strength. Keneally's heroine succumbs to lust and commits adultry...