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...theory of the unasked question is a myth that many German politicians desperately cling to. At Geneva the West had forced Molotov to admit plainly again and again, that whether or not West Germany is in NATO, Russia would never consent to free elections, which would allow West Germany to "swallow up" Communist East Germany. Already Molotov's admission had forced a new line in East Germany itself: free elections is a dirty term; after all, free elections had not prevented the emergence of Hitler. Wrote the party organ Neues Deutschland: "The lessons taught the German people...
...Germany and a "living immortal" of the Academic Franchise (see below), declared: "[Another crisis] would justify the calumnies which depict us, in all languages of the world, as the 'sick man of Europe,' the worm-eaten plank to which it would be folly to continue to cling . . . Already abroad we are being stricken from the role of great peoples...
Novelist Dennis will give no comfort to those who simply want to cling to familiar values. He laughs at everybody, including ex-Communists and the church. But he writes neither in sorrow nor in anger and achieves not so much a traditional novel as a rather special entertainment, with intellectual vaudeville acts now and then stopping the story cold. In the end, the Identity CIub breaks up in unseemly haste when a cop drops in for a look around. The blazing, devilish farce is over, a nightmare so cleverly contrived and keenly written that the reader who looks only...
...when she was billing herself in burlesque as "The Last of the Red-Hot Manvilles." "When Tommy passes on," she said, "I'll be there at the funeral with a long black veil that bulges in front. That bulge will be a little old cash register going 'cling-clang-cling...
...West of the jungle rise the high Andes -"God Almighty with His back up." On this vast plateau the ancient Incas, seeming to thrive on the cold, thin air, built the roads and stone cities for a creative population. The 5,400,000 numb survivors cling to their ancestral languages and communal farms, to their llamas and alpacas, but they have almost no part in their country's money economy. Only the rare towns and the mines, where U.S.-owned companies dig copper, lead, zinc and silver, are in this century...