Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a small new novel, Local Anaesthetic, West Germany's Giinter Wilhelm Grass has reached into the pressing present. The book's setting is Germany today. Its grim narrative device, characteristic of Grass's grotesque humor, offers society as a patient in a dentist's chair. The plot, if it can be called that, involves the threatened sacrificial burning of a dachshund. But Grass's real concern, which currently throbs like a sick tooth through the mind and conscience of the Western world, is the Generation Gap, the morality of revolutionary protest, the apparently helpless and surely tragic bankruptcy...
...Grass Gets Greener
...dozen such grass-roots leaders could be used to symbolize the ways in which black gains, however modest, are being achieved in communities. One who is more articulate and arresting than most is Rev. Jesse Jackson, an intense, passionate advocate of using black economic power to force white-run businesses to provide more and better jobs for blacks and to open chain-store shelves to black products. Tall and sensuously attractive, Jackson is the kind of leader who suggests both a dignity of bearing in his brooding dedication to his cause and a sense of brotherly warmth in his casual...
Funky, jive, dawn, high, the Man, hawk, cool, hot, copped-out, cats, caps, kicked, reefer, Johns, juke, ofay, goofed, wing, hip, dig, soul, honkies, splib (spook as in Negro), grass and skag are just a few of the words appearing in black poetry that often have multiple meanings elusive to the white reader. For example, in Etheridge Knight's Poems from Prison, he says...
...Alfred drive home. On the way she stopped several places, but the hogans were dark and the hearths cold. In a canyon by moonlight she gathered a handful of moose moss and an armload of wija grass. Not a feast, but enough for the likes of Sam. He banged away at 'La Primavera' while she cooked Keeble meatballs with garlic and moss. Delicious AND good for your...