Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GLASS BOOTH is a dramatic offspring of the Adolf Eichmann trial, reviving the stale questions of German guilt, Jewish passivity, and the paranoid personality of the archkiller. The play's best excuse for being is a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity by Donald Pleasence. He is like a neurotic blood relative whom one cannot abide or yet disown. He is as hallucinatorily real as a dream from which one cannot awaken...
...seven days. After that, the Yugoslavs will fall back on what they call "our own tradition" for dealing with the invaders. It is, of course, guerrilla warfare, an art in which Tito has few peers. During World War II, Tito's partisans tied down as many as 25 German divisions, succeeded in taking control of large parts of the country even before the advancing Red army marched...
...agree with Andrew Jamison's remarks on etiquette in Saturday's Crimson: hissing is bad manners; though if Herr Wessel is a member of the German SDS, he cannot be much concerned with manners or the "liberalistic" rules of fair debate...
Possibly some of the people who hissed Herr Wessel know something about the accomplishments of the German SDS in recent months. For instance, of the two people killed in the Easter riots, at least one and presumably both were killed by stones. Der Spiegel, until that point very favorable to the radical students, wrote: "Both these deaths must be charged to the SDS." (I am aware that last spring's Easter riots were precipitated by the brutal attack on Rudi Dutschke, but the death of two innocent people hardly aided Dutschke's cause.) Of course German policemen have been brutal...
...line of their pro-Wallace state- ment read: "The whole nation, stirred to teeming excitement by his eloquence, has tingled in every polyglot branch: English and French, Irish and Italian, German and Polish, Hungarian and Japanese, black and white, Swede and Magyar, all have mouthed his name in ecstasy, flnging the wonderful sound to the blue God-given skies until the vast ness of America roared...