Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoffmann, Friedrich and Ernest R. May, associate professor of History, held out some hope for the Geneva Conference later this month. "It would be delightful if the Russians even agreed to negotiate seriously," May declared...
...Quarry, by Friedrich Duerrenmatt. A sick old detective trapped in a sanitarium run by an archsadist-each of them the other's quarry-provides the author with a new set of grotesque mouthpieces for his macabre view of life...
...Quarry, by Friedrich Duerrenmatt...
...Quarry, by Friedrich Duerrenmatt. A sick old detective trapped in a sanitarium run by an arch sadist-each of them the other's quarry-provides the author of The Visit with a new set of grotesque mouthpieces for his macabre view of life...
...with Mont Blanc gleaming like a picture postcard in the background, a sedentary, stout Swiss just turned 41 lives contentedly with his wife, three children, and a collection of dogs and cats, and turns out some of the most wry and bitter writing of this wry and bitter time. Friedrich Duerrenmatt is best known for his unsettling play The Visit, in which a vengeful old lady manipulates the greed of a whole town to make its respectable citizens collaborate in the ritual murder of her former lover. In The Deadly Game, a traveling salesman joins in an after-dinner mock...