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Grass is much given to parody. Hitler's military jargon, for instance, is spoofed in delusive GHQ commands sent out to recapture the Führer's lost German shepherd, Prinz, as the Third Reich crumbles. Sample: "On the JüterbogTorgau line, projected antitank trenches are replaced by Führerdogtraptrenches." Often the bristliest bits in Grass's prose derive from what critics refer to as "thing magic" (Dingmagie), those long inventories of physical objects that Grass compiles to retrieve German from abstraction and the swarms of technical terms he uses, mostly derived from...
...deliberations went on in the yellow stucco Joint General Staff GHQ, a loudspeaker Jeep appeared at Buddhist headquarters, warned of imminent Catholic reprisals; that night the Jeep toured Catholic quarters, warned of Buddhist hordes. No one bothered to get the rumormongers' names, but both sides took the alarms seriously...
...pistols. At the outskirts, the hymn-singing men, women and children in conical straw hats picked up prepared banners proclaiming "Down with Neutralism." One group surrounded a Buddhist technical school, clashed savagely in monsoon rains with Buddhist boys in blue school uniforms. The parading Catholics reconverged on the military GHQ, shouted for Khanh to remain in power...
...South Vietnamese; the "chairman" is Nguyen Huu Tho, 53, a Saigon-born, French-educated lawyer. But naturally, he is only a local coverup for North Viet Nam's Red Boss, Ho Chi Minh. The Front's "capital" is believed to be the Viet Cong's military GHQ, which is situated deep in the jungle 75 miles northwest of Saigon, conveniently close to the Cambodian frontier, and protected by a maze of fortifications plus 1,000 elite troops. From there, a disciplined apparatus extends through provincial and district levels, down to the smallest village where the Reds roam...
...Party of Machos. Political GHQ for Zarur is Rio's powerful (50 kw.) "Radio Mundial," which he bought in 1956 for $187,500. On his office wall is a composite photo of "the holy family." From left to right: Zarur, Jesus and Moses, with Zarur's five-year-old son sitting beneath. On the air 24 hours a day, Mundial carries only a minimum of sports, newscasts and commercials. Most of the time it is Zarur. Zarur politicking: "Why do women like our party? Because we are the party of machos! We satisfy our women!" (Studio audience: "Viva...