"This dread group of moviegoing vigilantes is dedicated to suppressing anachronism now so freely engaged in by screenwriters... Anachronism is the placement of a word of the present in the mouth of a person of the past. The newly organized time police have asked me to help them put a stop to it because the practice is subverting our society's orderly sense of sequence... ”In 'Schindler's List,' writes Eric Myers of New York, in the space of 10 seconds, the character played by Ralph Fiennes refers to a scam twice, then says, 'Who's scamming who?' This, in Germany during World War II?"
January 1, 1970