Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politicians took note of the fact that two-thirds of today's youth are opposed to joining any party. And Socialist strategists were cheered by their findings that youthful voters favor the Social Democrats by a slender (4-5%) margin, partly because young intellectuals, such as Novelist Gunter Grass, have been campaigning for it (TIME, July 23), but mainly because the S.P.D. has been the underdog for years...
...complainers are mostly the left-leaning writers and thinkers of Group 47, whose informal club includes such bestselling writers as Novelist Günter Grass (The Tin Drum) and Playwright Rolf Hochhuth (The Deputy). They think that Willy Brandt and his Socialists would be a welcome change. Grass is currently on a campaign tour for Brandt. Twenty-five leading writers have contributed to a campaign book entitled Pleadings for a New Government. Grass's contribution was a partisan poem, Hochhuth's an essay in pseudo economics arguing that while Germany's rich are getting richer, the proletarians...
...course their good democratic right. But then they must permit themselves to be addressed as they deserve-as philistines and nitwits who pass judgments about things which they simply do not understand." In another speech he snapped that Hochhuth was a kleiner Pinscher (small terrier). As for Grass, Erhard growled: "There is a kind of intellectualism that can turn into idiocy...
...election procedures into coherent form for the first time, banning coalition candidates in mayoral as well as state and federal deputy races so as to reduce confusion. The other reform measure is designed to cut the number of parties down to manageable size and ensure that they have meaningful grass-roots representation...
...begin with the fact that everything is awful. That any two people are mismatched, that nothing will work," says Tom Waltz, Stanley's son, who has been invited to escape the limitations of his fate at Polycarp, an educational institution in Slow Rapids, Ind., where the Waltz grass dies every summer. He is more grammatical than his old man, but that is all. He too is a prisoner, trapped by circumstance and surrounded by the De Vries wit, which leaks out all over. And why does it? Because, in extremis, scalped and trussed, there is only one thing...