Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Oskar's stonecutting experiences in The Tin Drum, for example, Manheim finally gave up. "You've got to find a German-American stonecutter who can get the terms right in both languages," he wrote the publisher. The publisher did. Manheim made it through ex-Potash Miner Grass's scenes from Dog Years with the help of special dictionaries. But in translating Local Anaesthetic, Manheim had tremendous trouble with the highly technical language of dentistry used by Grass, who has made a study of the subject. "Many of the words," Manheim admits, "just weren...
...translator, of course, especially if his author knows both languages involved (as does Grass), can win every time. In German, the last line of Local Anaesthetic is "immer neue Schmerzen," or always new pains. Manheim translated it as "There will always be pain." For his taste, Gunter Grass finds that far too full of resignation...
...through concise interviews with townspeople, festival organizers, police and members of the audience. Everyone from a chief of police to a maintenance man for the Port-O-San portable toilet corporation gets his say. Woodstock, however, is not an unrelieved celebration. For every shot of easy affection in the grass and innocent group bathing in the nude, there is a scene in the medical tent, or the ominous voice of the onstage announcers: "The word is that some of the brown acid being passed around is very bad stuff . . . Will Helen Savage please call her father at the Glory Motel...
...most revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exported classes: animals, trees, water, air, and grass...
...trees, have died from the L.A. smog. Ponderosa pines reign over the Western forests. They're often two hundred feet all, with ten-inch-long needles. They are the oldest trees with the longest roots. In a sense, they hold the forest together. After a forest fire, grass begins to grow, which is soon replaced by bushes, like mountain mahogany and thimbleberry. Fast growing poplar trees shade out the bushes, like quaking aspens. After about a hundred years, the coniferous forest again dominates the area. Ponderosas are the ones that hold the soil to the land...