Word: bormann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early Christian theologian-and heretic-Origen, who castrated himself, and the American Benjamin Franklin, who did not. Here is Pythagoras, who denounced beans, and Horace Greeley, who renounced coffee. Here are the diverse saints and satans of human history: Gandhi and Hitler, Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Bormann, Albert Schweitzer and Richard Wagner. In The Vegetable Passion, such celebrities are always less notable for their deeds than for their dinners. "Byron," observes Barkas, "noted poet and lover, practiced a meatless diet sporadically throughout his life, not because of deep ethical or political ideas, but out of vanity-to enable...
...Martin Bormann delivers the first of his Godkin lectures on foreign policy, "The Big Fib." Forty-five thousand NAM protesters, chanting "Martin Bormann, we're no fools: we know Nazis are fascist tools," picket peacefully, three blocks away...
...Martin Bormann, last-minute stand-in as Class Day speaker for Henry A. Kissinger '50, is met by 9000 demonstrators organized by the New American Movement. As the protesters chant, "Martin Bormann, you can't hide: you've committed genocide," Bormann slips by them unnoticed...
Chanting "Martin Bormann, we see you: it's time to pay for six million Jews," 15,000 NAM protesters attempt to confront Bormann at the Harvard Club as he accepts the Harvard Republican Club's Teddy Roosevelt Award for Service to a Superior Race. Bormann leaves by the back door, unnoticed...
...Teuton waving his hairy green hat appreciatively at an Alp might be any German tourist, but - you realize with a start - it is Martin Bormann. There are scraps of conversation, no more. Hitler scans a speech manuscript through a large magnifying glass on the breezy terrace with Speer looking over his shoulder. He looks up. "Very interesting," the Führer remarks, in a line straight out of Laugh-In. Hitler's doctor appears; he describes how he has come to suspect a link between smoking and lung cancer. "Disgusting," the patient snaps. Nobody is at ease with...