Word: nazism
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...nation that did not recover from the Depression until 1938. It may be worthwhile for students of economics to compare the final recovery of the U.S. economy at the outbreak of World War Ii with the German economic recovery at the U.S. economy at the outbreak of Nazism. It is fine to talk about Roosevelt's concern for the people, but it's the truth that he was unable to provide many Americans meaningful employment during his first two terms. His "New Deal" failed to restore the economy despite to disregard for the Constitution...
Malle's new film, My Dinner With Andre, seems to turn the same trick, but with a more highbrow audience in mind. For over two hours, two men comment copiously on the human spirit, the state of art and theater, life, death, Nazism, facism, and the '60s. But when dinner's over, and the tables are cleared off, we're left with just another period piece, this one for the 1980s...
...musical actress best known for performing, and later resuscitating, works of Composer Kurt Weill, her first husband; of cancer; in Manhattan. Lenya's signature role, which she premiered in Weimar Berlin, was the prostitute Jenny in Bertolt Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera. The Weills fled Nazism for the U.S. and, especially after Weill's death in 1950, Lenya renewed her career on the Broadway stage (Cabaret) and in spoofy films (From Russia With Love). Said Music Critic Harold Schonberg: "She can put into a song an intensity that becomes almost terrifying...
...demonstrators and Spartacist League members exchanged top-of-the-voice charges and countercharges on subjects ranging from the Moonies to Stalinism to Reagan budget cuts and including Trotskyism, fascism, the Catholic Church, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Nazism and the Bay of Pigs, about 30 individuals inside the hall listened silently as Joseph Seymour, a member of the Spartacist League central committee, talked about Solidarity's ties to Western imperialism...
...Communist activist, Daix, describes his decision early in 1940 to oppose Nazism, despite directions from Moscow to cooperate with Germans. He was 18 years old at the time and remembers the lonely battle: "We were obliged to improvise lodgings, arms, everything. When it turns out badly, we said, the Communist Party will do something for us, until they did nothing...