Word: broche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is some confusion here; there is bound to be, with people trying to give orders in four different languages in a kitchen," Mrs. Alice Broch restaurant manager explained. "But everyone here believes in smiling all the time--that helps...
Window Shop customers don't worry about the confusion; the food is good, and the clothes, though a mite expensive, are catching to the eye. In summer, guests may eat in the garden and, according to Mrs. Broch, the students prefer this. "It gives the boys a better chance to catch up on their flirting...
...SLEEPWALKERS (648 pp.)-Hermann Broch-Pantheon...
...books, the reports of the street fights in Berlin. In that period before and just after Hitler took power, the books coming out of Germany had a confused, bitter, gnarled violence foreshadowing the impending catastrophe. It was probably one of the ugliest periods in literary history. Hermann Broch, born in Vienna and now living in exile in the U.S. (he was jailed when the Nazis invaded Austria), was an eminent Austrian novelist; The Sleepwalkers, a massive and gloomy trilogy, which he calls a philosophical essay, is his big book...
Most readers will wish Hermann Broch had put his essays in one volume, his novels in another. But to anyone who has to deal with post-Hitler Germany, The Sleepwalkers may seem almost compulsory reading, much as Main Street and Babbitt would be required reading for anyone studying the crash...