Word: germanic
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Since the German musical scale contains an "H" (their "H" is our "B" and their "B" is our "B-flat"), Bach's name spells out a chromatic and eerie four-note melody. According to his son, at the point in the "Art of the Fugue" when Bach brought in that melody, he died. The book is full of such strange coincidences and upheavals...
During the summers after my first and sophomore years of high school, I did all kinds of exciting things. I participated in archaeological digs, studied German in a small town in Austria and helped gather data for a study on plant life and mammals (shrews, rats and mice, more specifically--they really are cute, despite what some people may say) on an island off the coast of France. But then I got the strange idea that I had to spend my summers finding out what I might want to do "later...
...used to be a science person, so in the summer after my junior year I decided to work in a lab in Paris. It was interesting work, and I could use my newfound knowledge later on in the summer to explain to my German teacher what might be the cause of her battle with the 5 o'clock shadow. Of course I couldn't be too sure about it--I only knew that "Daisy" (a kind of gene) might have caused some of her problems. But at the end of the month I craved sunshine, and it started to grate...
...typical of the genre. The novel asks not only who is trying to murder Brossard but also why Brossard has been able to remain in France for 44 years, receiving asylum from various Roman Catholic monasteries, and a 1971 presidential pardon for the crimes he committed during the German occupation and the Vichy regime...
...easy to see why the Eight live in fear of Buschbacher, 38. He coached the 1988 East German women's team to Olympic glory and in 1991 became the first national women's coach the U.S. team has ever had, leading the women rowers, including those in the four- and two-person boats, to take four out of five gold medals in the 1995 world championships. All conversations with the Eight, somehow, lead to Buschbacher; his is the only opinion that matters. When he addresses the team, each woman grows perfectly still; when he follows the boat in his launch...