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...ants found themselves facing a new situation," Grass wrote, "but, undismayed by the detour, soon built a new highway round the doubled-up Matzerath, for the sugar that trickled out of the burst sack had lost none of its sweetness while Marshal Rokossovski was occupying the city of Danzig...
...delegates felt that such statements speak for only a small minority of Negro opinion, and represent not so much anti-Semitism as a lashing out at Whitey. At both meetings, there was overwhelming agreement that American Jewry should involve itself even more in the Negro's struggle. Howard Danzig, executive director of a suburban Detroit synagogue, told the Conservative convention: "Unfortunately, in Detroit as in other cities, the Jewish presence in the predominantly Negro areas is usually that of merchant or landlord. The situation is economically structured for conflict...
...view of the Soviet Union's demand that Israel return to its original boundaries, would it not be appropriate for the Israeli representative to the U.N. to request that the Soviet Union do likewise, that is, return East Berlin, Poland, Danzig, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, two portions of Finland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and several outlying bases to their original owners...
...support-and a language barrier that barred him from practice. He tried making shoes, inventing an electric razor, singing in a national radio contest. Nothing worked. Then, as he later told the judge, "I suddenly remembered the theory of my professor of political economics at the University of Danzig. He said that a man who lights a cigar with his bank note is harming the entire society, for every bill in circulation contributes to the wealth of the society. Stretching the theory just a bit, one might well say that the man who makes a false bill and introduces...
Giinter Grass looks like a slightly sinister Santa Claus and comes loaded with gifts. Renowned as Germany's most powerful postwar novelist (The Tin Drum, Dog Years), this husky son of a Danzig grocer is also a playwright (The Wicked Cooks), a sometime speechwriter (for West Berlin's Mayor Willy...