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...said no. For one thing, he wanted to dampen Soviet enthusiasm somewhat. He was taken aback at the grandiose terms in which the Soviets spoke of the treaty. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, for example, told Scheel: "West Germany used to say it was an economic giant and a political dwarf. But now you are a political giant too." Brandt demurred. "I would like to say that I am a little scared by the superlatives that one finds here and there," he cautioned. "As a Berliner, I want to say: 'Haben se's nich 'ne Nummer kleener...
...work any more. One source of comfort used to be the sheer size of the land: the vastness of America, surprising again and again no matter how often one had glimpsed it from plane or train, always promised that there was enough room for everyone, enough space to dwarf all factions and conflicts. Now the huge stretches seem oddly empty, even useless despite the abundance they produce, and one is all too conscious of the fact that our fate is being decided in the crowded cities. For them, the wide spaces have little meaning except at times...
...hamlets were heavily damaged, and Thanh My was virtually destroyed. At least 114 inhabitants died in the raid in the worst Communist massacre since the deathly days of the 1968 Tet attacks. The survivors wandered dazedly through the smoldering ruins of their homes. One old dwarf carried two severed hands wrapped in paper-all that he could find of his twelve-year-old son, who was in one of the bunkers. Even as the people of Thanh My mourned their dead, the women of a village controlled by the Viet Cong only a few miles away showed up to carry...
...principal personification of his distrust, his key corrective agent, as well as Grass's most famous character, is Oskar the dwarf, the protagonist of his first novel, The Tin Drum. The book sold more than 1,500,000 copies around the world (about 600,000 in the U.S.), as appalled and fascinated readers in 16 languages absorbed the dwarf's devastating, knee-high view of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Oskar's "sing-scream" could shatter glass. His magic drum carried him back and forth in time. One of his best tricks was breaking up Nazi rallies...
...This is a part of "Women-the Struggle for Fdeedo," one of the founding documents of the women's liberation movement, It was written by a women's group in England, and first published in "The Black Dwarf." an English socialist magazine...