Word: deutsche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That sort of crudeness, recent events seem to be saying, is no longer imaginable. Thus agent Samson, with his perfect, idiomatic Berliner Deutsch and his deep knowledge of levels of murk and treachery on both sides of the Wall, is suddenly out of date. As are, an optimist dutifully believes, many thousands of border guards, KGB head beaters and assassins in the real world. Espionage will go on, of course, but presumably it will be of the corporate kind, waged among Japan, Korea and the European Community, which is apt to | include Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, what used to be called...
...Deutsch, a former Rhodes Scholar, is on a one-year fellowship at the National Humanities Center. Next year she will become an associate professor at MIT. She is currently working on a book about women in Boston...
...Deutsch then spoke of the way Hispanic communities changed when they could not compete economically with Anglo communities and were forced into becoming mining villages...
Women could not work with men, fewer than half of Hispanics owned land and the work was seasonal. As a result, women could not find jobs and lost their economic status and equal role in their society. "The women were no longer bosses. They were dependents," Deutsch said...
...Deutsch said she became interested in the history of the Chicanas while teaching English to Hispanics in New Haven, Connecticut. "I had expected the group to be largely male," Deutsch said, "but it was about 90 percent female." That piqued her interest in the subject, she said...