Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover portraying Governor Wallace and a bomb-mutilated "Good Shepherd" window in a Birmingham church is a powerful sermon...
...letting the Western newsmen stay, Fidel Castro may be getting the best of the bargain. Incoming wire service copy makes a useful window to the West. There are A. P. tickers in the Foreign Relations Ministry, the Union of Young Communists, the United Party of the Socialist Revolution and in many other government offices. Prensa Latina, the Castroite wire service that peddles propaganda free to any taker, might go out of business without its A.P. wires; much of what comes in is trimmed to Castro's line and sent right out again...
When Charlotte was nine, her mother committed suicide; Charlotte's picture shows her just before she leaped from a window. Her father was taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; her picture of him working under a guard's whip is a frenzied sketch, as if she could not bear to confront her easel. She fled from Germany; the scene of her last night at home is a lonely vigil over suitcases...
Charlotte Salomon lived in Villefranche for four years. After her grandmother's suicide (like her daughter, the old woman leapt out of a window) and her grandfather's death, she was left alone. She fell in love. Her Jewish fiance had a forged identity card. When he applied to marry her, the authorities explained to him that as an Aryan he was forbidden to marry a Jew. He confessed the forgery and they were married. On Sept. 21, 1943 a Gestapo truck drew up to their home. Both died in the gas chamber at Auschwitz...
...hero's blithe pursuit of what appears to be fair game lurks the seed of the same violence that brought the young widow to death on the cold basement floor. The frustrated reporter finds himself crouched in the dark on a fire escape outside the salesgirl's window, titillated by notions of breaking and entering...