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Henry I. Kohn, Gaiser Professor of Radiation Biology at the Medical School, has been appointed director of the recently established Center for Human Genetics...
There is a new monster at large in Germany today and its name is prosperity. That is the view of Gerd Gaiser, South German novelist, World War II flyer and sometime schoolmaster. His countrymen's real religion is materialism, he feels, and their real measure of success is possession. In this book, Novelist Gaiser tries to show that in such a society, good people can only be hurt, while the greedy are blissfully unaware of their own ugliness. Says one well-to-do mother to her well-padded daughter: "Ditta, one shouldn't breathe a word...
...Author Gaiser's story is expertly plotted and for the most part cleanly written. But he calls on characters who are dead to testify about the shortcomings of the living and forces his moral points in weighty Teutonic terms. Much of what he says about the new Germany may be true, but it could with equal truth be said about the people of any country and any time who want the things that money...
This book makes Germany's losing war in the air seem like a poet-painter's vision of mankind in limbo. Only by literary license can The Last Squadron be called a novel. Using the pointillist method of French Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat, Author Gaiser puts his characters on paper like isolated dots, makes their destinies random and meaningless until the reader can draw back and view them against the broad canvas of total war. The last squadron, a fighter outfit, is stationed at Janneby West, somewhere on the Western front, and its only task is the increasingly...
...LAST SQUADRON (251 pp.)−Gerd Gaiser−Pantheon...