Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Novelist Günter Grass set the style. Finding himself unable to dramatize the horrors of the Nazi era through the consciousness of a responsible man, Grass's imaginative and very successful solution was to see the years of horror through the sensibility of a dwarf. Following his lead, Jakov Lind, Uwe Johnson and Ingeborg Bachmann have made mutes, idiots and psychotics their means of confronting the bestiality of Nazi sadism on some sort of equal footing...
...amicus was simply a bystanding lawyer who offered a judge neutral legal advice. But as more and more private lawsuits began to affect public interests, amid became advocates, largely in appellate courts, for otherwise unrepresented third parties-business, labor, the states, even Congress. Today, amicus briefs may sometimes dwarf the arguments of nominal litigants-and be welcomed by courts as clarifiers of widely competing interests...
...Four new perennials from New York's Jackson & Perkins, including a dwarf lavender-blue aster and a com pact, nonspreading Purple Heart...
...family) and cannot be counted on to bloom at Christmas. As a result of whooped-up claims, thousands of home gardeners plant Elberta peach trees, one of the least rewarding varieties. Another pitfall is the failure of many catalogues to describe the variety of root stock on which a dwarf apple tree is grafted (it will not be a true dwarf if it is not rooted on imported English Mailing stock), or to mention how many times an evergreen has been transplanted (it develops a more vigorous root system by being lifted out of the earth and pruned...
...great depression, a shattering war, an anxious peace, and the whole onslaught of existentialism are less inclined than ever to proclaim what Margaret Mead calls "parental imperatives." Some of the slackening has been as silly as the diffident dad in Max Schulman's I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf, who takes his son on "palship walks." But much of the diminishing tension results from parental intent as well as parental abdication. Harvard Sociologist Talcott Parsons finds many young parents "committed to a policy of training serious independence in youth," to which children respond with seriousness-and an occasional wistful...