Word: wars
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Soldier of Orange is one of those Resistance dramas in which a small group - in this case some Dutch university students - becomes a cross section of a nation's responses to the Nazi Occupation during World War II. Some become heroes, some become collaborators, some simply get by. Their adventures, mostly the usual arrests by and escapes from the Gestapo, are recounted in a conventional glossy manner. Director Verhoeven obviously has studied the classics of the Occupation-adventure form, and he offers a competent pastiche of them...
...Third World War, Hackett...
...War and Remembrance, Wouk...
...Jewish Book Publishers, for example, inspectors confiscated a book of essays entitled The Holocaust Years, as well as ex-Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban's My Country. Among the 300 volumes left untouched were Eban's companion volume My People and Lucy Dawidowicz's volume The War Against the Jews, an analysis of the Holocaust...
...University acquired the Riesman Center building about ten years ago. It had housed the defunct Iroquois Club--ironically, one of the few finals clubs to accept Jews before World War I, Rosovsky said. More recently it was the site of Sanctuary, a haven for "street people," Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday...