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He recognized a Christian duty to charity but was gripped by a fear that his charity would be wasted, thereby incriminating him in sin.
Critics call it "richer and more profoundly disturbing than Anne Frank's journals" (Jesse Birnbaum, Time ). Peter Gay writes in the New York Times Book Review that "even the reader familiar with Holocaust material must be gripped by these pages" and that the book has a "concrete, vivid power that is, and I think will remain, unsurpassed."
The book's cynicism is even more distressing, symptomatic as it is of a larger cynicism that seems to have gripped our public culture.
The press, gripped by Herman's not-especially-notable part in the Democratic National Committee fund-raising scandal, has largely ignored the many interesting convolutions in her various roles.
After dissection, the tendons of the dissected fibers were gripped with small pieces of T-shaped aluminum foil as close to the ends of the fibers as possible.