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...climb back over the wall out of the garden. Recognizing that our language and the tradition which survives it is no longer an exclusive proposition. Bly has turned to foreign poets, translating their work, providing essays on their lives, and revealing their enormous influence on his own poems. Georg Trakl, Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda: these are names whose meaning calls out to us in a low voice, intruding on our conscious life: their experience is entirely other than...
...articles and speeches, Grass has consistently attacked former members of the Nazi Party, including ex-Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and ex-Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss. In Cat and Mouse (1961), a nearly flawless small novel about German teenagers during World War II, Grass openly made fun of the Iron Cross?by having his hero dangle it in front of his genitals. Mad dreams of superstates, militarism and the kind of procrustean idealism that makes preposterous demands and holds out impossible hopes for society are inevitable Grassian targets. But Grass has also cleverly spun the coin of guilt to show...
...news which is really important," read a 1943 report to the foreign ministry in Berlin from Ernst von Weizsacker, who as Ambassador to the Holy See also directed a German spy network. One person assigned to ferret out the authentic news for the Germans was an apostate priest named Georg Elling. who came to Rome ostensibly to study the life of St. Francis of Assisi. What really interested him was the movements of Allied ambassadors at the Vatican. Other spies tapped telephones, monitored Vatican Radio transmissions and intercepted cables. Experts in Hermann Göring's aviation ministry cracked...
Easy Victim. Consider State Secretary Georg-Ferdinand Duckwitz, 65, who coordinates diplomatic policy toward the East Bloc. After weeks of wolfing down lunch at his desk and rushing from conference to conference, Duckwitz had to be sent home for a complete rest. A few days later, Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, 50, was rushed to a Bavarian sanatorium and ordered to read nothing for several days. Other top West German diplomats show symptoms of severe strain and exhaustion. Even Chancellor Brandt, who possesses an exceptionally rugged constitution, became exhausted from poring over diplomatic dispatches and consulting with foreign policy advisers...
...London Records (English Decca) completes the world's first recording of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Georg Solti...