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...letter then asks the question of why Epps' response to the discrimination was so vituperative. In defense of the strength of the attack, White says that "it is impossible for a white person to comprehend the great distress aroused in a Negro who is faced with discrimination. It seems to me it would be a rare person indeed who would be able to hold himself back in a situation such as this. I have an idea I might have done the same thing...
...such is the verse form Author Toynbee has invented "after many experiments" to carry the narrative of his eighth novel, ostensibly the reminiscences of an old Anglo-Norwegian attempting in the year 1999 to recapture and finally comprehend the essence of a brother who died in 1936. Lest the reader fail to appreciate Toynbee's poetic virtuosity, Toynbee provides a pretentious introductory gloss that is almost a recipe. Take "first a very long and discursive line of anything between 25 and 35 syllables (but never either more or less), followed by two lines of five stressed syllables each...
...strategists privately admitted. But the issue went deeper than German politics. Protesting against the "new wave of distrust," Die Zeit in a front-page editorial noted that there is a "new generation" of Germans which knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth. For the sake of this generation, we may be forgiven for saying: One cannot treat a nation like a juvenile delinquent-always under the moral sword, a potential criminal until he proves the contrary...
...larger problem remains: Do the natural sciences have a special importance? Everyone seems to think so. Who has not heard the cliches?: "The average citizen loses most of his taxes to the moon project, yet can't comprehend the fundamentals of space flight." "We support cancer research without knowing the rudiments of biology." "There are 'two cultures...
Thanks to West Germany's 20-year statute of limitations, Nazi war criminals will be safe from prosecution after May. Then responsibility for the nation's conscience will rest largely in the hands of Germany's postwar novelists, whose attempts to comprehend the unsavory past have produced such memorable fiction as Günter Grass's The Tin Drum and Heinrich Böll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine. In The Clown, Böll tells the story of Hans Schnier, a young professional pantomimist who specializes (like his author) in satirizing German complacency...