Word: franz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is more P. G. Wodehouse in The Do-Gooders than the deadly amoral wit of Bruce Jay Friedman or Joseph Heller. The true black humorists spring from Franz Kafka, Céline, James Joyce and Nathanael West. Imitations like this owe their origins to the pop-art Campbell soup cans, underground "art" movies, and the overpowering amplification systems that give rock music its driving force...
...years earlier had asserted that the earth was the center of the universe. And why would Joshua have commanded the sun to stand still (Joshua 10: 12-13) if it did not move? Galileo was forced to recant. Addressing a meeting of Nobel-laureate physicists at Lindau, West Germany, Franz Cardinal Koönig of Vienna announced: "I am in a position to declare that an initiative will be taken which will lead to an open and honest solution of this case." Although Church leaders and writers in recent decades have spoken warmly of Galileo-in 1965 Pope Paul praised...
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 18-Sept. 7) this year explores the compositions of Franz Schubert and Benjamin Britten. A concert version of Schubert's rarely heard opera, Alfonso und Estrella, is scheduled for Sept. 7, following a virtual Who's Who among artists, orchestras and opera companies in a generally classics-oriented program...
...affair thrives, despite burlesqued escapes from detection, and Martha evolves a plan to drown Dreyer, inherit his millions and marry Franz. "My dining room, my earrings, my silver, my Franz," she muses. Martha, in fact, is so greedy that she aborts the murder plot at the last moment because her husband remarks that he is about to fatten his estate with $100,000 from the sale of a patent for mechanical mannequins. The appearance of these "automanne-quins" raises the question of who is real and who is not-one of those Nabokovian diversions that in later novels are more...
Fiction as Artifice. There are other such feints in the novel, including a jarring and inexplicable projection of Franz into a diseased old age, and a lunatic landlord who constantly threatens to break up the game but never does. But in the end, it is the author's stylized and intentionally visible hand that collects all bets. Martha succumbs meekly to pneumonia. Franz, relieved of his responsibilities as stud and killer, leaps into madness. Dreyer continues good-naturedly to misread all signs...