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Author Remarque admits that he had to invent little of his story because so much of it happened to him. Hero Ludwig's town of Werdenbrük is like Remarque's Osnabrück in Lower Saxony. Remarque too wanted to be a poet and pianist and wound up with a tombstone firm; he too recited his lessons to prostitutes. These hard times remembered in tranquillity result in a strange sort of book. The atmosphere is as febrile as a manic ward on the upbeat. The poor and aged commit suicide every day, but the tombstone firm...
Beyond Reason. The man of science, Psychiatrist Robert Vossmenge, and the man of God, Pastor Kurt Degenbrück, are both attached to a mental clinic in pre-Hitler Germany. Their cases have the garish intimacy of tabloid headlines-an old woman who believes her son is being tortured in the basement, a teen-age boy who shoots and kills his brother "just to see what it felt like." These vignettes, complete and unrelated stories in themselves, are used much like algebraic problems by Novelist Deich to set the doctor and the pastor puzzling over the cube roots of free...
proved itself well able to withstand the shocks of the cold war and the Korean war, just as the economy has continued to grow through all the troubles. Stock Exchange President Funston thinks that the more small investors who buy sto'ck not for speculation, but for the long pull, the stronger the market will beand the better it will reflect the state of the nation Says he: "Never has a business had a better opportunity to do something good for the country and at the same time for itself. It's a natural...
...Heckmann and colleagues, having paid attention to the prize offer, sued Bueren in the Osnabrück court. "Science cannot always say what is correct." they argued, "but we have advanced so far as to be able to say what is wrong...
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