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...most significant single statement about health to appear in the medical journals during the past decade is by Dr. Franz Ingelfinger, the late and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Ingelfinger noted that almost all illnesses are self-limiting. That is, the human body is capable of handling them without outside intervention. The thrust of the article was that we need not feel we are helpless if disease tries to tear away at our bodies, and that we can have greater confidence in the reality of a healing system that is beautifully designed to meet most...
...jury should also have honored Karel Kachyna's The Ear, made in 1970 and just now released. This stark, dark comedy, depicting one long night in the life of a bickering Czech couple who find their house bugged, plays like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf as written by Franz Kafka...
Kohl became chancellor in 1982 largely by default, after Kohl's main competitior, the late Franz Joseph Strauss, had discredited himself as a viable candidate following his defeat in the 1980 election. Kohl was fortunate enough to be the opposition leader when the governing socialist-liberal coalition under Helmut Schmidt crumbled...
...Wiesenthal decided to tell his story all over again. Though presented as a new book, some of its narratives remain almost exactly the same -- Wiesenthal's pursuit of the police officer who arrested Anne Frank, for example. Others needed updating. In The Murderers Among Us, Wiesenthal located Treblinka Commandant Franz Stangl working at a Volkswagen plant in Sao Paulo; shortly after Wiesenthal's book appeared, Stangl was arrested and sent to prison. On the other hand, Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele, whom Wiesenthal had described as hiding in Paraguay, was subsequently found to have drowned in & Brazil (though Wiesenthal continues...
...retreat from realism for his "neo- fabulist" style. Barth says Wolfe's manifesto "is much too narrow a view. I see the feast of literature as truly a smorgasbord. I wouldn't want a world in which there were only Balzac and Zola and not Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka. The idea that because we live in a large and varied country we therefore ought to write the sweeping, panoramic novel is like arguing that our poets all ought to be like Walt Whitman rather than Emily Dickinson...