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Critics of two cultures have pronounced Kafka's novels both "pre-fascist" and "proto-Communist" Freudians have found in them classical symptoms of angst; theologians have seen a cold and brilliant statement of Kierkegaard's "either/or" maxim and Karl Earth's "theology of crisis.'' And like Freud's, his name has become an easy tag, employed by essayists and parlor annotators: Kafkaesque now suggests the small man confronted by a high and nameless menace, the humble man, anxious to cause no trouble, who finds that his heart has withered, the defeated man who wanders...
...minute, with smoldering nostrils, he confesses an unpatriotic passion for "Geengeair Rrrogeairs"; the next he sees a band of Fascist bullyboys drag a good man off to die. In the end he gets home to find that he has no home, that the war is not over until tyranny is dead...
Moby Dick is an Orson Welles adaptation, some of it in blank verse, of Melville's novel. Some men tinker with old cars; Orson Welles tinkers with old masterpieces. His 1937 Julius Caesar, in Fascist uniform, was exciting theater. Moby Dick is a fiasco...
...barriers also seal the city's 65-mile western border with the Soviet zone. And that does not count the 830-mile Marxist Maginot line that seals East Germany's western frontier from the Baltic to Czechoslovakia. This is what Walter Ulbricht cynically calls the Democratic Anti-Fascist Protection Wall; already it boasts 500 watchtowers, 1,000 fortified bunkers, 93 miles of minefields, and throughout its length, the wide, plowed strips of earth where a footprint can be seen from a distance, alerting guards with savage dogs to another escape attempt...
...storm broke, and it wasn't helped any by what Caouette had gone on to say in the magazine: "I admire Mussolini's qualities as a leader and I regret that he was a fascist. I admire in Hitler his economic reforms and I consider that he brought his people out of misery. I regret that he employed for war instead of for peace the ideas which...