Word: gunter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drum, Gunter Grass...
...teaching in public schools. Headmaster William Jackson, 54, a retired public school teacher, insists that he and his staff are motivated by simple love of learning. "We're not concerned with integration, de-integration, or whatever," he declares. "We're concerned with quality education." More frankly, Burton Gunter, a plainspoken Swansea farmer who sits on the county board of education, says that segregation academies are "going to take over everywhere," because "integration is ruining education-it's one of the worst things that ever hit this country, worse than a tornado...
...GUNTER GRASS believes in democracy. He disapproves of the German students on the Far Left as much as he does those on the neo-Nazi right, because both are trying to destroy Germany's democracy rather than strengthen it. In the series of speeches, open letters, and articles translated in Speak Out!, Grass presents his vision of what the German state should be, and his criticisms of West Germany...
...acuity that equals that of the very best novelists and poets of our time, and a fearless honesty of both subject matter and technique that separates him from his contemporaries in film. His latest effort, Shame, and the earlier Seventh Seal very possibly could render him, along with Gunter Grass among novelists and John Berryman among poets, one of the eminences of art of this century. His new film concerns itself with difficulties of a young couple living on an island who suffer through war, invasion, and the proliferating horrors of their plight. It is the most powerful movie, with...
...notebooks, which contain a somewhat fictional history of his parents and of the marks laid upon their lives by experiences during and immediately after World War II in Yugoslavia and Austria. Siggy calls these notes his "prehistory," and his recollected stories seem touched by the bizarre influence of Gunter Grass. On the day in 1938 when Austria capitulates to Hitler, for example, a man whom Siggy's mother loved but did not marry creates hysteria in Vienna by running around costumed as a Habsburg eagle. Siggy's real father is a Yugoslav who escapes on a motorcycle...