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A group of aging men trudged slowly through the imperial paddyfield in Tokyo's Palace compound, stooping to cut the rice plants in an annual harvest ritual as old as the gods of Japan. Their leader, in a gray shirt and a battered panama hat, was once considered the...
In his novels, particularly The Tin Drum and Dog Years. Grass has also sought to prod Germans out of their complacency about the nation's Nazi past and materialistic present. Still, Grass downgrades his role as a social or political critic. "The idea that writers are the conscience of...
Sir: As a descendant of a family which settled in Leominster, Mass., in 1781, with ancestors who battled in our devastating Civil War, I am interested in the sanctity and safety of this our nation as a major power.
FRANCO's choice for the future King ' of Spain seems a storybook prince. Wavy-haired, tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and athletically built at 200 lbs., he is married to a beautiful princess who has borne him three handsome children. Through his veins courses the bluest of Europe...
Minutes after his exchange with the stewardess, three Massachusetts state police appeared in the aisle. They hand cuffed Dudley, a descendant of the founder of Cambridge, a Harvard Law School alumnus and currently a United Church of Christ official. He was hustled off the plane, taken to a police station...