Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murders, but adds, "This was providential. Otherwise, I fear greater harm would have been the result." Catholics point out that after the Dutch bishops issued a joint pastoral letter attacking the deportation of Jews, the Nazis retaliated by arresting Catholic converts from Judaism. In 1942 Cracow's Archbishop Adam Sapieha pleaded with the Vatican not to broadcast accounts of German atrocities since it would only make things harder for his people...
...ADAM IN EDEN by Grace Metalious. 312 pages. Trident Press...
...Mouse, by Günter Grass. Best-selling Novelist Grass (The Tin Drum) relates the torment of a young man whose prominent Adam's apple makes him an outcast to his classmates. He strives for excellence and wins it, but to the "cat"-human conformity-he is still a curiosity...
...Mouse, by Günter Grass. Best-selling Novelist Grass (The Tin Drum) relates the torment of a young man whose prominent Adam's apple makes him an outcast to his classmates. He strives for achievement and wins it, but to the "cat"-human conformity-he is still a curiosity...
Always an Outcast. When Mahlke is 14 and dozing beside an athletic field, a classmate thrusts a playful kitten on his "mouse"-the word he uses throughout the book to describe his swollen Adam's apple. Mahlke becomes savagely self-conscious about the mouse. In winter, he fixes his scarf high over it with a safety pin and constantly reaches up with his hand to be sure the scarf is in place. In summer, he spends as much time as possible in swimming so the mouse will be invisible under water. Struggling in other ways against the teasing derision...