Word: das
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Karl Marx labored single-mindedly for 15 years to produce his monumental Das Kapital, and all the while he was in pain. He suffered from an enlarged liver, hemorrhoids, recurrent eye infections, insomnia and boils. But Marx's bitter prophecy that the bourgeoisie would "have cause to remember my carbuncles" hardly applies today. Last week, on the 100th anniversary of the publication in Hamburg of the first, and most important, volume of Das Kapital, the only people who seemed to be in agony over Marx's ideas were his own Communist heirs...
Pyramids & Polemics. Das Kapital's sheer size-three volumes and more than 2,000 pages-is almost enough to endow it with a religious aura. The work, says British Historian Isaiah Berlin, "has been blindly worshiped and blindly hated by millions who have not read a line of it, or have read without understanding its obscure and tortuous prose." Since 1917, more than 6,000,000 copies of it have been printed in the Soviet Union. Yet the Albanians, who have been Communists for two dec ades, managed to do without it until last year, when they published...
...reason why the book may bore Albanians is that so much of it is devoted to British industrialism about the time of Dickens. Das Kapital combines pyramids of abstraction with impassioned polemics more typical of the better known work of Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto...
English is virtually without gender-it is, in fact, suspiciously without sex. Dr. Hartogs was educated in Germany, where a girl (das Mddchen) is neuter, spring (der Fruhling) is masculine, and a door (die Tiir) is feminine (apparently the doctor cannot bear to hear one slammed). As he sees it, a language in which only he and she are sexed must be up to no good. In English, what is the sex of a bicycle, an eggplant, a subway? None. And what does this engender? According to Dr. Hartogs and Hans Fantel, a "professional writer" who has tried to guide...
...three children by Rossellini-Robertino, 17, and the twins, Ingrid and Isabella, 15. As the result of an acrimonious custody fight the children spend the school year with a governess, vacations with their mother. But the ex-Rossellinis are no longer bitter. He, too, is remarried, to Sonali Das Gupta, his Bombay love...