Word: nazism
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...groups but believes that because modern America is a pluralistic society, it is "not only wrong but unwise" to try to make doctrine the basis for public policy. He is wary of official political stands by religious groups, except in the case of such manifest evils as slavery and Nazism. Though against rigid church-state separation, Colson argues that each institution has a distinct, God-given role. Churches should emphasize spirituality and avoid the corrupting enticements of political power. Similarly, he opposes government- organized school prayers, insisting that "propagating moral vision" should be the job of the church...
Written by modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht and an allegory for the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany, this work marks not only the resistible rise of Arturo Ui but also the rise of a direction/production trio. The three have done several other productions together in the past, including last year's hit The 5th of July, are good friends and they even live in the same entry way of Leverett House. But all agree that the sheer logistics of a mainstage production require a different approach...
...subject -- Curator McShine has done a good job of setting out, in samples rather than full packages (55 artists are represented), the peculiar mix of political intelligence, sharp irony, antic humor, mythic yearnings, brusque self-doubt and curiously facile pictorial effects that helped define Berlin's cultural temper before Nazism and that came back, with many variations, after...
Almost alone among Germans, von Weizsacker has argued that Nazism is something that the world has a duty to remember, he says...
Prosecutors, Jewish leaders, and a spectrum of Frenchmen react heatedly to that line of defense. They say Verges wants to "banalise" Nazism--reduce it to the commonplace...