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...drama to give meaning to his empty life. "How very much I too would like to have a family, children, children! Oh, God, you know how much I love children . . . But I have to deny myself this happiness. I have another bride--Germany! I am married: to the German Volk. " This high-minded sentimentality contrasts grotesquely with private reality. The extent of Hitler's love affair with his niece Geli Raubal may never be clear, but there is enough evidence to indicate that his half sister's 23-year-old daughter was not happy with her Uncle Adolf's attentions...
...caught Sargent completely by surprise,” says Mary Crawford Volk, a scholar at the Museum Studies Program of Harvard Extension School who is currently writing a book on Sargent...
Sargent’s synagogue is “best understood as forming part of the entire ensemble,” according to Volk. Many scholars have noted that Sargent intended the paired figures to be seen as only the outer trappings of a truer inner spirituality–and so that both church and synagogue were outmoded...
...Mention the War The British anti-euro campaign is telling a tale full of the pound and the Führer in cinemas this week. Rik Mayall, star of cult TV show The Young Ones, appears in a 90-second ad dressed as Hitler to shout "Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Euro!" (One people! One country! One euro!) The ad, which includes other celebrities arguing that it is not anti-Europe to be anti-euro, drew the wrath of commentators and Jewish groups, who called it offensive and predicted it would backfire by painting the campaign in xenophobic colors...
...portion of the Mississippi is missing from your cover. From Bemidji, Minn., to Prairie du Chien, Wis., lies the most beautiful and natural part of the river, with scenic backwaters and fantastic bluffs lining either side--and the people are among the friendliest. Too bad you missed it. TOM VOLK La Crosse...