Word: amerika
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amerika, du hast es besser [America, you have it better]," said Goethe 145 years ago, and the world today looks to the U.S. as the pinnacle of material prosperity. In seeking the creature comforts of the modern age, other nations consider it incidental that most of the goods can be obtained most cheaply and efficiently in ways and styles designed by the Yanks. Says Britain's leading Americanologist, Sir Denis Brogan: "What is called Americanization in the rest of the world is largely modern industrialization. America is the chief modern industrialized society, in all the things that means...
...crippling distrust of himself, he had published almost nothing, and he died little noted, leaving instructions to burn all his work. His closest friend disobeyed his will and published Kafka's three unfinished novels, his letters, diaries, parables and tales. These included The Trial, The Castle and Amerika-in effect, the chief body of his work. The generation that has passed since then has been deeply marked by the friend's good sense in preserving these records of a genius that at first seemed obscure, then mysterious, eventually dangerous and, at last, chillingly prophetic...
...Kafka sees it, because the lonely life is a breeding ground for new and universal crimes: torpor, mediocrity, the avoidance of the dare of love. In The Trial, the absolute appears as The Law; in The Castle, as the warder who never appears; in Amerika, as a promise extended but never fulfilled. The bitter loneliness Kafka suffered, Politzer says, was in quest for "the hope beyond hopelessness,'' "the glimmer of light Kafka knew existed...
When there was much agitation for more cultural exchanges between East and West several years ago, the Soviet Union and the United States agreed to exchange illustrated monthly magazines describing life in the two countries. The Russian language Amerika has been distributed in the Soviet Union, and the English language USSR has been circulated here. A number of other magazines from Communist nations are now available in the United States, all designed like USSR to give Americans some notion of what things are really like in these mysterious lands...
...perhaps know, McCarthy and his assistants, Cohn and Schine, are generally considered to have considerably damaged our U.S. information program. In Vienna, they succeeded in removing books and records from our Amerika-Haus. In Munich they had several senior people removed from the Consulate General and the Amerika-Haus. Consequently, although I feel it perfectly fair to criticize USIA for weak sports, presumed or actual, I do not think you are justified in using McCarthy's favorite device, guilt by association...