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A friend of mine, a professor and a poet, who is married to the son of a Holocaust survivor, told me this story: in 1993, she decided not to see Schindler's List. She was, she reported, sick of the hype surrounding the release of the film, and tired of Hollywood's banal treatment of the Holocaust. But her father-in-law and his friends, all survivors, would not stop bugging her. Every time they saw her, they told her to see it. Finally she succumbed. The next time she saw her father-in-law and his friends, she queried them indignantly: "Why did you tell me to see it? It wasn't good; it wasn't anything like that." "Of course not," her father-in-law replied, "but wasn't it terrific?"
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