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...many Dutch collaborators; the French cherish the myth of the heroic Resistance but began mistreating Jews well before the Nazis asked them to do so; the Soviets steadfastly denigrate the Jewishness of most Holocaust victims; and all too many Americans are turning memories of the Holocaust into a vulgar fund-raising carnival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Memoriam | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...ultimate survivor begets 27 unacknowledged offspring, plus Aaron, who begets the predatory Bernard and the doomed and mysterious Solomon. The brothers beget a liquor business that makes them the intimates of gangsters during Prohibition and the cynosure of politicians ever after. Their descendants become various refractions of the founder: vulgar, sensitive, avaricious, undirected, lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ringmaster | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...told that my decision was foolish, and my concentration, academically worthless. By studying a variety of disciplines, I am merely training in "sophistry, if you will." By reading the works of 19th century philosophers, I am simply ensuring that my "scrutiny can proceed free of vulgar issues about facts and the dreary methods required to determine them...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: The Master's Disaster | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...clergy and others concerned about the weirdness of some rock music and its potential for harm. Though some music has exploited satanic and occult themes, the religious crusaders are more concerned about other problems. The Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Miss., is concentrating on vulgar, sadistic and violent sex songs. Tipper Gore's Parents' Music Resource Committee of Arlington, Va., especially decries records that foment contempt toward Jews, minorities and women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Sympathy for the Devil | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KATE BRAVERMAN: From The Tropic of L.A.: Novelist and poet | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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