Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate conclusion -- that the culprit is the Haitian boyfriend of her Austrian au pair girl -- will offend liberal sensibilities, especially since it turns out to be correct. Bellow has ruffled racial feathers before, notably in Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970) and The Dean's December (1982), and his new heroine's thoughts will not heal those old wounds: "These people came up from the tropical slums to outsmart New York, and with all the rules crumbling here as elsewhere, so that nobody could any longer be clear in his mind about anything, they could do it." But Clara is here...
...plane touched down on the rain-drenched runway, littered with wind- blown bits of sagebrush. The narrow ribbon of tarmac at Zvartnots airfield looked like a crowded parking lot: an American military C-141, its tail marked with a large Stars and Stripes, an Algerian transport plane, a commercial Austrian airliner -- in all, about 15 foreign planes, not counting a regular fleet of Soviet Ilyushin 76s and Tupelev 154s. Hundreds of dark-clad figures milled about. The usual tight military control that exists at every Soviet airport seemed to have all but broken down...
Outcry against Jenninger was aimed at the perceived anti-Semitic nature of his address--a positive sign that Germans have done far more to eradicate their anti-Semitism than their Austrian neighbors...
...through her friendships with Naranjo and with Rolf Carle, an Austrian photojournalist, that Eva becomes involved in a guerrilla uprising. And it is Carle who further convinces Eva to use her skills as a storyteller to expose the government's corruption...
...tour also took the Kroks to such cities as London, Paris, the Hague, Monte Carlo, Salzburg, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Lincoln cites as his favorite part of the tour the group's performance before an Austrian princess, who invited them to a party after the show. "It's just hard to believe that we were there dancing with princesses in the middle of the Alps," he says...