Word: home-grown
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Reich's debut this month is a political as well as a publishing event in West Germany. As the first home-grown editorial effort to re-create the mood and experiences that led to Hitler's power-grab, Reich has unsettled Germans of all political persuasions. Its editor, Christian Zentner, says that over the next two years the magazine will attempt to explain how "the nation of poets and philosophers" could become "a nation of murderers and criminals." But many Germans apparently still care less about that question than about keeping the skeleton of the Nazi era closeted...
...years I lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and had a Southern accent. Mine wasn't Applachian hillbilly-country music Southern, nor was it the soft-petalled Junior League variety. It was just a home-grown Mississippi River vintage '53 drawl. I liked it. Felt comfortable with it. Then I came to Harvard, and grudgingly, but inevitably, surrendered my natural speech...
...dinner at a restaurant on Capitol Hill and everywhere along the way he was stopped by people who wanted to shake his hand. A fundamentally shy man, Ervin is both pleased and embarrassed by all the attention. Said twelve-year-old Bobby Ervin, establishing that a talent for home-grown simile runs in the family...
...pressures at home as well as abroad. Last week the Justice Department asked a federal judge to hold the company in contempt of court un less it produces some 1,200 internal documents that the Government says it needs for a longstanding antitrust suit. The EEC too would like to see Snow White split up into several parts, even though that, admits Christopher Layton, the Common Market Commission's director for advanced technology industries, "wouldn't solve the competition problem." The solution will require an intensive sales program to convince European buyers that home-grown computers are equal...
...aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman's intellect and methods are favorably compared with those of Vladimir Nabokov, Jasper Johns and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Even Leonardo da Vinci is hauled in to serve as an artistic ancestor. The aim of this coercive litany is to persuade doubters that Nauman is a home-grown successor to Marcel Duchamp, whose every pun and jeu d'esprit, no matter how limp, must be given the solemn study once reserved for Holy Writ. In short, Nauman has had the full treatment. Mount Culture labors, and out he pops...