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Above all, there remains the problem of the war's most gaping wound: divided Germany. Just as conscious as ever of their special and not-quite-equal places in postwar Europe, West and East Germans are trying to find a way past their enforced separation that will not arouse the suspicion and hostility of their neighbors. In turn, West Germany's allies privately worry about the slightest symptoms in the public mood that might indicate a willingness to leave the Western alliance in favor of a neutralist reunification...
...allow close examination of the intestine. The second polyp they discovered was too large (about the size of a baby's finger) to be removed in that manner; all they could do then was scrape off some cells from the polyp's periphery for a biopsy. Though Reagan was conscious, he knew none of this at the time. By 3:20 p.m. he was being wheeled to a recovery room, Nancy walking alongside, and assayed a one-liner. "Now, what is your name again?" he asked his wife, with a big grin...
...York City. The design of the residence is carpenter's gothic, "a patchwork of conceits, borrowings, deceptions... a hodgepodge of good intentions like one last ridiculous effort at something worth doing even on this small a scale." This description is a key to Gaddis' own architecture: a self-conscious scaling down of his earlier books, in which issues of decline and fraudulence were elaborately developed...
...materialistic, dehumanizing postwar society in such works as Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963) and Group Portrait with Lady (1971). A crusader for the freedom of writers everywhere, especially under Communism, Böll was considered Germany's most influential writer since Thomas Mann, and in conscious evocation of his predecessor he was often called "the conscience of the nation...
Young said Burks, 21, was conscious during the entire ordeal and that doctors believe she did not sustain a head injury...