Word: rosenbaum
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...Janet Rosenbaum...
...only good reason so far, but it is also met with disappointment. Alicia Witt and Joshua Jackson escape the TV-dom of "Cybil" and "Dawson's Creek" for far less imaginative roles on the big screen, joined by the fairly beautiful Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart and Michael Rosenbaum. Oh, the men are definitely hot (who cares if their characters are completely flat?). Pacey from "Dawson's Creek" especially, with his bleached hair, makes me--happy...
Hitler and the holocaust remain the 20th century baseline for the discussion of evil, the ne plus ultra. But as Ron Rosenbaum writes in his restlessly probing and deeply intelligent book Explaining Hitler (Random House; 444 pages; $30), Hitler has escaped intellectual capture. The old tabloid survival myth (HITLER ALIVE IN ARGENTINA!) perversely comes true in the realm of our historical deliberations. "The search for Hitler," says Rosenbaum, "has apprehended not one coherent, consensus image of Hitler but rather many different Hitlers, competing Hitlers, conflicting embodiments of competing visions...
...more sophisticated--but still far-fetched--level, George Steiner's controversial novel, The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H., argued, as Rosenbaum says, "that the tolerance, the secret approval, the permission [Hitler] received from the rest of the world to exterminate the Jews can be explained by the universal hatred mankind has for the Jewish 'invention of conscience,' for the torment inflicted on man by the ethical demands of Moses, Jesus, and Marx...
...impossible to think about civilization, responsibility, human possibility, evil--or, of course, God--without confronting Hitler. In this brilliantly skeptical inventory of the world's Hitler-thinking, Rosenbaum analyzes not only the multiple Hitler theories but also the agendas and fantasies that the theorizers bring to their subject. His book may be useful to the surprising number of people--Flat-Earthers of the moral realm--who, even now, refuse to believe in the existence of evil. To them, admitting evil's reality seems to empower the irrational in an intolerable way, to give it a certain vulgar, primitive mystification...