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...tried a new strategy for this match, juggling Fritz Campbell and Andy McNerney in the middle weight classes in an attempt to secure two wins. The strategy backfired as McNerney, wrestling up one weight class from his accustomed 142 Ib, division, scored a superior decision in the 150 Ib, class, but Fritz Campbell lost the most frustrating bout of the match to Cornell's Phil Heflin...
...Fritz Tolm and his wife Käthe leaning out of a window of their Rhineland manor and getting wet in the rain? He only wants to tell her that she is "still the best remedy against boredom." It is a novel way to say "I love you," but the house is bugged and Tolm does not want the police to overhear him, even if it is for his own good. As Holzpuke, the officer in charge of household security, explained, all conversations are analyzed. Even the most innocent exchange may contain a clue about where and when terrorists will...
...14th book, his fifth since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, is not a thriller but an extended rumination on the post-postwar era of divided loyalties, lost traditions, desperate rebellions and amalgamations. As one of Tolm's associates puts it, "It's all decided, Fritz, and it'll happen in your lifetime-not a thing will remain, not one stone upon another-just don't be too surprised; nothing is more dangerous than when unions and the Association are in agreement. Energy. Jobs." In short, Böll, like the ancient Chinese philosophers...
...must come, must prevail." That forms of socialism already prevail in most modern democracies should have been obvious. Furthermore, the statement is a surprise coming from a man who heads a newspaper syndicate and is president of his nation's most powerful association of business interests. Still, aging Fritz Tolm is a good choice for the job. He is not one of those suspect postwar tycoons who have had their SS tattoos removed by a discreet plastic surgeon. He ran a liberal paper, has been a scholarly author (The Rhenish Farmhouse in the Nineteenth Century), and is a bird...
...away. Rolf has another son named Holger by former wife Veronica, a radical who is raising the boy in the Middle East and/or Turkey where she lives underground with a lover, whose wardrobe includes an exploding vest. Herbert, Fritz Tolm's other son, also belongs to an "alternate society." A married daughter, Sabine, is not politically inclined, though she has taken a compromising position with Hendler, her security guard, and is expecting his child. By fast count the novel contains over 70 other characters engaged in various plays, stances, conspiracies and love affairs both hetero-and homosexual...