August 2011
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… the sniper’s bullet struck Medgar Evers just below the right...
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It was in DENMARK, however, that the Germans found out how fully justified the Foreign Office’s apprehensions [about Scandinavian resistance to the machinery of the Holocaust] had been. The story of the Danish Jews is sui generis, and the behavior of the Danish people and their government was unique among all the countries of Europe—whether occupied, or a partner of the Axis, or neutral and truly...
This preternatural love of rules, almost for their own sake, punctuates German...
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I have talked enough about myself, let’s talk about you. Your letter alarms me. If you persist in your intention of experiencing all possible sensations—although as a transitory state of mind that is quite normal at your age—you will never attain to much. I was much happier when you said that you wished to be in contact with all that was real in life. You may think that they both amount to...