Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Possibly the award's most hapless recipient was Carl von Ossietzky, a German soldier turned peace activist who attacked the rising might of the Nazis and his country's secret rearmament. When Von Ossietzky won the prize in 1935, he was in a Nazi concentration camp; Adolf Hitler was so enraged by the decision that he forbade Germans henceforth to accept the Peace Prize...
Marie Howe denies playing any role in the Ackerman incident, but told The Crimson that "Mr. Ackerman's house was loaded with German swastikas.... They were in adoration of Adolf Hitler," Ackerman's wife, Kathy Moore says that there are no swastikas in her house and never have been: "That's just the craziest thing I ever heard. ... The poor woman apparently doesn't know the difference between the (political) right and the left." Indeed, most of the members of their household are Jewish. (Marie Howe adds that even if the Ackermans are Nazis, "that...
...indeed, the way things went in the first quarter, it looked as if the Tigers would roll over the Crimson the way Hitler ransacked Poland...
...almost doesn't matter that the movies are so bad. If only he could liven up every dumb thriller or grace every little comedy. And if only he could go back to the stage too, and do Lear and Prospero and any new, good play that comes along. Screw Hitler--let's clone Oliver...
...nter Grass has clowned his way to his nation's most serious truths. The Tin Drum and Dog Years are masterpieces of comedy and verbal invention about the culture and history that suppurated as the Third Reich. In other novels, plays and poems, he dealt with the Hitler aftermath of political divisions and haunted affluence. One mark of Grass's success is the uneasiness he caused the average German of his own World War II generation. In a tradition where philosophy and history stand on pedestals of grand abstractions, Grass's earthiness and ribald ironies came...