Word: gelnhausen
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...even more for a single parent. For mankind, however, it is the most important task, despite imposing some hardship on the parents. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, both childless, will enter the history books, but for the continuation of humanity, they are worthless. Dieter Gebrath Gelnhausen, Germany My son was born in Germany 11 years ago. That is how I got to know a Germany even my mother would have found old-fashioned. As a Norwegian and a career woman, I decided to move back home to avoid hostile and insensitive comments on my dual responsibilities...
Theron W. Parker Gelnhausen, West Germany...
...over the proper use of dactylic words. They fall into grim dispute "over the essence of irony and of humor." Thunderous abuse follows the reading of each manuscript. Worst of all, these noble spirits find themselves implicated in the cruelty of their age; the feast mysteriously provided them by Gelnhausen, a dashing young member of their entourage, turns out to have been tainted by violence and plunder...
...underscore this point, Grass gives the best speech in the novel to the rascally Gelnhausen. The discredited young man takes his leave, boldly promising the group that some day he will write a book: "But let no one expect mincing pastorals, conventional obituaries, complicated figure poems, sensitive soul-blubber, or well-behaved rhymes for church congregations. No, he would let every foul smell out of the bag; a chronicler, he would bring back the long war as a word-butchery, let loose gruesome laughter, and give the language license to be what it is: crude and softspoken, whole and stricken...
...visit to Germany last month, Army Chief of Staff General William C. Westmoreland offered some cheering words to U.S. troops. "You are now the first priority in my book," he told a Seventh Army unit at Gelnhausen. Such reassurance came none too soon for the Seventh, which stayed on in Europe at the end of World War II and has served for more than two decades as the bulwark of NATO's ground troops. With a strength of approximately 180,000 men, the Seventh will soon be the largest U.S. force overseas; troop strength in Viet...