Word: asch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twirl three Footsees at once-one on each leg and one on an arm. In the first three months on the U.S. market, about 4,000,000 of the $1.29 toys have been sold. The reason cannot be novelty: a similar toy enjoyed brief popularity four years ago. Robert Asch, president of Twinpak Ltd. of Montreal, which makes the Footsee, is sure the game is far older; he got the idea while watching Arab children in Jerusalem playing with like contraptions...
...Gunner Asch tetralogy, West German Novelist Hans Hellmut Kirst explored the soldier's life in Hitler's Wehrmacht, in which he himself had served twelve years, and found a simple point: a dogface is a dogface, even under the sign of the swastika. Asch was a universal type, a latter-day Good Soldier Schweik, the goof-off who confounds every military system...
...even more unrelenting than that. He specifically places the German spirit beyond redemption: it is a beast, sleeping only between wars, that will stir at any moment to do murder again. Kirst's readers, who beyond any question of guilt or conscience enjoyed the appealing roguishness of Gunner Asch, may be disconcerted to discover that his creator considers Asch a myth. What is more, they may not agree with that view...
...Alice $125 a week when he discovered that she had been remarried for 68 weeks. Alice reclaimed alimony on a compelling ground: her second husband had not been divorced from a previous wife and her second marriage was void. Too bad, ruled New York Civil Court Judge Sidney H. Asch. Since Alice "intended to abrogate her right to support" when she remarried, Harry is off the hook for good...
...survive in Hitler's army, as Hans Hellmut Kirst explained in his Gunner Asch trilogy, was to play the old army game. Now he explains how to survive in the new German army. Same way, but with a difference. Readers of the trilogy were amused to discover that Hitler's Wehrmacht had a silly side. The Bundeswehr, on the other hand, seems distant and dull...