Word: germane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem lies in concentration requirements, which tend to be excessive at Harvard," says Professor of German Peter J. Burgard. "[This is] a natural result...of the tendency to think that one's own field is the most important...
...reader's, and allows no response except banging the hands together. Without this mad blaze of confidence, her next novel might have been a hanky dampener. Accordion Crimes traces an old green accordion from hand to calloused hand among turn-of-the-century Italian and German immigrants in New Orleans and the lower Mississippi. Told by Proulx, it makes a wonderfully strong, rowdy book...
...Nazi Germany is, oddly, the freedom. She lived in the Bavarian city of Passau, where most mothers were working and fathers were away in the military. "We six- and seven-year-olds used to sneak into the movies to see old Shirley Temple films," says Schlant, a professor of German at Montclair State University in New Jersey and the wife of Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator and current challenger for the White House. Later Schlant learned that less than two miles from Passau, hundreds of civilian prisoners were being worked to death at a slave-labor camp--a detail that...
...Language of Silence (Routledge; 277 pages; $20.99) is in a sense Schlant's response to that reticence. Formally, the book is a study of postwar West German literature. But it has a stinging moral premise: that even the country's most liberal writers of the period committed sins of omission when dealing with the legacy of mass murder. Schlant's evidence is eye opening. The late '40s, for example, were dominated by a "literature of rubble," which dealt narrowly with Germany's wartime suffering. An anthology of stories published by the school of writers known famously as Group 47 contained...