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Bucking the trend on Hitler
Evil makes comeback in novel's analysis.
There appears to be a trend to understand what made Hitler Hitler. The recent film Max explores the frustrations of the aspiring young artist living in flophouses in Vienna following World War I. CBS plans to produce a mini-series on Hitler's youth. And the documentary Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, which recounts the memories of Traudl Junge, who worked for the Führer right up to his suicide, depicts a kindly, if not gentlemanly, employer.
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04/13/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
Carlin Romano | Survivors, heroes and an antihero in city under siege
What's it like for one's city to be under siege? To have foreign soldiers on the doorstep, bombs falling, leaflets floating through the window, public and private order breaking down, the normalcies of life - food, sanitation, safety, decency - instantly gone?
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By Carlin Romano,
Inquirer Book Critic,
04/13/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
Power of imagination, and birth of evil
'All aspects of hell," the Professor observed, "have been in a state of continual evolution." The same cannot be said, usually, of novels purporting to deal with hell. But it can be said of Anthony O'Neill's take on infernal affairs in his altogether brilliant The Lamplighter.
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04/13/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
1962 portrait of racism is also a window on how far we've come - or not
It is a freeze-frame that freezes one's blood. Taken by a Look magazine photographer on Sept. 27, 1962, just days before the rioting that broke out when James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi, it shows seven Mississippi sheriffs and deputy sheriffs anticipating - some far too keenly - the deadly disturbances to come.
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04/13/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
Book Review | Near life's end, a man reviews loves, passions
The tone of Siri Hustvedt's new novel, What I Loved, is established by the very title. It's distant, elegiac, even a bit fatigued. Not quite a sentence, not quite a declaration, it is the tale of loves and passions past, not present, and a life nearing its end.
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04/10/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
Book Review | Privileged childhood in Cuba recalled
John Lennon had it right - revolutions seldom live up to their advertising. Few bring more good than harm, and fewer still come without significant heartache and bloodshed.
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04/09/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
He's rewriting the course of arts at Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr College has an illustrious and long history - 118 years to be exact - as a sterling academic institution for serious, bright young women, historically bypassing such traditional areas of study as education and the arts.
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By Karen Heller,
Inquirer Staff Writer,
04/08/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
Time to cram for final days of 'One Book'
Here's your last chance to get involved in the "One Book, One Philadelphia" project, which draws to a close this week. Just in case you haven't been able to pull yourself away from war coverage long enough to pay attention, here's a primer: For the last two months "One Book, One Philadelphia," a project of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Mayor's Office, has been inviting people across the region to read and discuss local author Lorene Cary's novel The Price of A Child.
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By Eils Lotozo,
Inquirer Staff Writer,
04/08/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
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