Ethnic Passion: Past evils forgotten in tumult of freedom behind old Iron Curtain Those shaken by change should direct their rage at the real villains, not at minorities and recent immigrants.
BUDAPEST - As a tourist enters the 700-year-old Matthias Church, she is jostled in the crowd; moments later, she reaches into her pocket and cries, "My wallet is gone! " At the police station, she meets two couples, Dutch and German, also victims of pickpockets in the same place on the same afternoon. The policemen sympathize: Gypsies, they explain. Or a Bulgarian gang. It becomes apparent that the feeble authorities will do nothing to stop the systematic ripoff....
Ethnic Passion: SLOVAKS AND CZECHS
WHEN THEY jeered and jostled Vaclav Havel, Slovak nationalists were giving a demonstration of the overheated ethnic passion that has become the leading threat to their country. Mr. Havel, the president of Czechoslovakia and a genuine democrat, is regarded in the West as a hero. But to Slovaks, or at least to some of them, he has become a much resented symbol of Czech influence and, as a Marxist would say, hegemony. The nationalists are now calling for secession Is this going to be the fate of...
Ethnic Passion: Milosevic: Corrupt opportunist
Fall: The Serbian dictator gained power by fanning the flames of ethnic tensions and was a victim of the fire.
Nothing has ever been as it seemed in Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia.He was a dictator who allowed dissent, a war-maker who claimed to be a guarantor of peace, a burly man with gray hair who looked like a ward boss, dressed like a Midwestern businessman and behaved like a mobster robbing his state blind. Above all, the 59-year-old Milosevic, who viewed himself and his people as history's winners, was a loser, a man who gambled and lost vast and valuable parts of...
Ethnic Passion: set of woes William Safire
set of woes William Safire BUDAPEST As a tourist enters the 700-year-old Matthias Church, she is jostled in the crowd; moments later, she reaches into her pocket and cries, "My wallet is gone!" At the police station, she meets two couples, Dutch and German, also victims of pickpockets in the same place on the same afternoon. The policemen sympathize: Gypsies, they explain. Or a Bulgarian gang. It becomes apparent that the feeble authorities will...
Ethnic Passion: ACTING WITH PASSION,
Phillips Temple tradition fills audiences with spirit
DAYTON - It didn't matter that Jesus Christ wore a pair of dungarees, a banded collar shirt and a diamond earring. Thomas Lockett, who portrays Christ next week in Phillips Temple CME Church's passion play, had flawless command of his instrument and hit every mark.It was rehearsal hour at Phillips Temple, 2050 Germantown Ave., and the gaping sanctuary of the 40-year-old church was vibrating with energy. Bespectacled director G. Elaine Johnson - with a cast of 70...