Ridin' the Bus with Deborah—by Doris Colmes
Introduction by Sean/iNoodle.com:
Doris's sentiments, below, were shared by my great tutor and friend, Ms. Beate Ruhm von Oppen, at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. In the autumn of 2003, during the final term of my first master's degree program, Beate, a handful of fellow graduate students and I, together, closely studied the first two volumes of Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet, a literary masterpiece which concerns the final years of British imperial rule in India.
In the 1930s, Beate left Nazi Germany to attend boarding school in the Netherlands, and left that country before its occupation to attend university in Britain. She died on August 10, 2004, at 86, but not before she and I had shared many hours of conversation, at the College, at her home, at mine, in a local tea room, on the journey to and from the cinema, via transatlantic telephone calls, etc. We talked of literature and philosophy, but mostly of politics and history.
The American Historical Association published an obituary in memory of Beate in its January 2005 issue of Perspectives. Additional information concerning Beate's life well lived, and her impeccable credentials for identifying fascism, are available via this Google search.
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11/29/05 "ICH" -- -- When Deborah Davis hit the news, I got hit as well — right in the pit of my stomach where terror hides, and panic lurks ... "Oh God," I mumbled, "It's happening again."
And just exactly what had Deborah done to get this emotionally detached old lady into such a replay of emotions left over from 1938 Nazi Germany? It was the gut-wrenching realization that the Nazi Police State in which I was raised has come back to roost – in the United States. [...]
Click here for the full article via Information Clearing House.
Doris's sentiments, below, were shared by my great tutor and friend, Ms. Beate Ruhm von Oppen, at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. In the autumn of 2003, during the final term of my first master's degree program, Beate, a handful of fellow graduate students and I, together, closely studied the first two volumes of Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet, a literary masterpiece which concerns the final years of British imperial rule in India.
In the 1930s, Beate left Nazi Germany to attend boarding school in the Netherlands, and left that country before its occupation to attend university in Britain. She died on August 10, 2004, at 86, but not before she and I had shared many hours of conversation, at the College, at her home, at mine, in a local tea room, on the journey to and from the cinema, via transatlantic telephone calls, etc. We talked of literature and philosophy, but mostly of politics and history.
The American Historical Association published an obituary in memory of Beate in its January 2005 issue of Perspectives. Additional information concerning Beate's life well lived, and her impeccable credentials for identifying fascism, are available via this Google search.
11/29/05 "ICH" -- -- When Deborah Davis hit the news, I got hit as well — right in the pit of my stomach where terror hides, and panic lurks ... "Oh God," I mumbled, "It's happening again."
And just exactly what had Deborah done to get this emotionally detached old lady into such a replay of emotions left over from 1938 Nazi Germany? It was the gut-wrenching realization that the Nazi Police State in which I was raised has come back to roost – in the United States. [...]
Click here for the full article via Information Clearing House.
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