Word: maligned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had been as malign as he in their vengefulness, they might better have hoped that he would live on yet a little while. For no death they could devise for him could be as cruel as must have been Hitler's eleventh-hour thoughts on the completeness of his failure. His total war against non-German mankind was ending in total defeat. Around him, the Third Reich, which was to last 1,000 years, sank to embers as the flames fused over its gutted cities. The historic crash of what had been Europe's most formidable state...
...Titanic, is one long frenzy of symbolic possibilities. No Melville but murderously in earnest, Prechtl makes a sort of Tamburlaine of John Jacob Astor, constructs a magnificent tear-jerker about the aged Isidore Straus. To these creatures of fact he adds tons of Sunday-Supplement material (melodrama, pseudoscience, a malign diamond), a few moments of near-grandeur...