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American Sociologist Daniel Bell was outraged. So were West German Novelist Heinrich Boll, France's former Culture Minister Andre Malraux and British Poet-Critic Stephen Spender. An indignant committee of Nobel laureates called upon U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to complain. Novelist Saul Bellow was so angry that he exploded at an international P.E.N. congress in Jerusalem last week: "They are stupid, ignorant, partisan. And I think they are a lot of swine...
Troubles did not end with race. As Shaw notes, "All God's dangers ain't a white man." There was also the unyielding soil and unpredictable weather, the boll weevil, illness and wild fluctuations in the all-important price of cotton. "It's a market price," Shaw explains, "and it's set before you ever try to sell your cotton, and it's set probably before you gin your cotton and before you gather it or grow it or even plant your seed." During Shaw's prime farming years (roughly 1906 to 1932), cotton...
SATURDAY: Speaking Freely. Those of you who think t.v. is not strictly for escapists, illiterates, bored pseudo-literates, or lonely people, should watch this show. Heinrich Boll, the 1972 Nobel Prize winner for literature, opens up on a variety of subjects, including war, the victimization of the weak, and dehumanization in a materialistic society. Heavy stuff, true, but it might get you ready for Monday (then again, it may convince you to drop out). 6:00 on Channel...
SINCE WILLY BRANDT won the Nobel Prize for peace, and Heinrich Boll the one for literature, post-war Germany seems to have achieved a sort of new maturity. At the same time, a new generation of artists and writers is now coming of age, with results as mixed as they are varied--contrast the sad products shown at the Orson Welles's German film festival last spring with the literary success of Gunter Grass, Siegfried Lenz, or Boll...
Although representatives of the club said on Wednesday that they would state they were opposed to Boll's practice of exclusion of women, their testimony reportedly rested on the technicality of Paul's status as an alumna...