Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-member delegation, including a representative from the Harvard Jewish Law Students Association (HJLSA), met yesterday with the West German deputy consul in Boston to discuss renewing the statute of limitations applicable to Nazi war crimes...
...statute will expire at the end of this year unless the West German parliament acts to extend or repeal it. If the parliament does not act, participants in Nazi atrocities who have not been tried will have immunity from prosecution...
...German company can certainly teach A&P much. Though highly secretive about profits, the group owns more than 2,000 stores in Germany and Austria with annual sales of $2.7 billion, and it places stress on gourmet food lines as well as in-shop butchers and bakers. Says one admiring competitor: "Haub took a store in Berlin, reduced the number of articles for sale from 6,000 to 1,200 and found that sales actually went up." A&P, which must slim still further before it can hope to recover, will not miss the lesson that less can mean more...
Logic is the perfect vacuum, admitting no impurities but capable of breeding absurdities. A Nazi war criminal sets himself up as Louis XVI in the wilds of South America where he decrees German to be French and Argentina to be imperial Spain. A Huxleian world in which sexual indulgence has resulted in a "genitocracy" is suddenly cooled off by Nosex, a drug that turns lovemaking into drudgery. Sex as a recreation and mainstay of the economy is replaced by eating, with its own pornography and taboos. People who eat fruit while kneeling, for example, are branded perverts...
...time is 1940, the starting place is Paris and the German armies are on the move to complete their Occupation. The odd couple who dominate the action are soldiers of ill fortune. The plight of S.L. Jacobowsky (Joel Grey) is dire; he is a Polish refugee Jew. He is also a Chaplinesque waif with the resilient ingenuity to trip up brute force. Colonel Tadeusz Boleslav Stjerbinsky (Ron Holgate) is a towering Polish nobleman full of caste prejudices. He has the voice of an opera star, and a conviction that war and patriotism are twin badges of honor...