Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nazi Germany, a character, also called Hermann Ott, in Grass's book. Melancholia and the achievement of political "stasis in progress" are two of the themes which dignify the image of the snail into high symbolism. What better emblem could a writer offer for the Jew reluctantly leaving his homeland in the Germany of the thirties than that of the humble snail, bearing his house on his back? You get the idea...
...whites and the blacks on the picket lines outside the Chrysler plants expressed resentment toward their Arab co-workers, largely because most of them don't speak English, and partly because their terms at the Plants are short. They say that their Arab counterparts usually return to the Arab homeland with American dollars...
...most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," said State Historian Myra Ellen Jenkins. As the controversy wore on, one Santa Fe wag suggested placing a fig leaf over the word savage. Someone else proposed a second obelisk dedicated to "the gallant Indians who died fighting for their homeland...
...fact that the Holy See now has the right to name bishops in all Eastern European countries except Albania, and maintains diplomatic relations with eight Arab states. (It has pointedly avoided formal relations with Israel, since Rome refuses to acknowledge world Jewry's special relationship with its "homeland...
...bring a lasting peace to the Middle East, one that takes into account the national rights of the disinherited, dispossessed Palestinians. Turki sketches a tentative plan of a separate Palestinian state alongside Israel which would give Palestinians at least the right to national self-determination in part of their homeland. However, in coversation, the author has moved away from that position because he fears a separate state would just become a puppet of Israel, a pool of cheap labor and a market for Israel's goods. When writing his book, Turki was more concerned with the existential question...