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...reason for the change of heart was the allegation, stemming from a Harvard Magazine article he wrote in in their memory, believe that that horror gives them the right to inflict horror on others," he wrote. "Winternitz's account of the Shin Bet, the Israeli secret police, is eerily similar to the stories of the Nazi Gestapo... [with] arbitrary arrests in the middle of the night, imprisonment without trial, beatings, refined tortures, murder...
...March-April 1992 Harvard Magazine the University's alumni publication Marius authored a review of Helen Winternitz's book "A Season of Stone: Living in a Palestinian Village...
...Many Israelis, the Holocaust fresh in their memory, believe that that Horror gives them the right to inflict horror on others," he wrote. "Winternitz's account of the Shin Bet, the Israeli secret police, is eerily similar to the stories of the Nazi Gestapo, the Geheimstaatspolitzei in Nazi-occupied territories in World War II--arbitrary arrests in the middle of the night, imprisonment without trial, beatings, refined tortures, murder, punishment of the families of suspects...
...opened new exhibition galleries, and 800 items from one of the world's most impressive collections of musical instruments are on view at last. Many have been restored to playability. The Met plans to tape-record their sounds-"truthful witnesses of early musical culture," Curator Emanuel Winternitz calls them-and pipe them into headphones for visitors. To start a series of recitals in the museum's auditorium in which professional musicians will demonstrate the capacities of rare items in the collection, Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski has already played the oldest piano in existence, a 1721 creation by the Florentine...
...mansion on New Haven's best street, had an estate in the New Hampshire hills consisting of a great central house and several flanking cottages to take care of the subfamilies involved. Cheever spent long weeks at both places, found a crackling and fond relation with old Dr. Winternitz, a man of astounding energy. In some curious way, immersion in the Winternitz family released Cheever from a kind of writer's block that he had had about his own strained childhood, and led him eventually back to the Wapshots of St. Botolphs. True to the paradox...