Word: intelligenz
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...member of the Intelligenz, an American, a Jew and a capitalist, Agee battles for acceptance by his peers, but a restless private conscience pulls him elsewhere. In an eerie prefigurement of his own condition, Agee's pet magpie is one day besieged by hundreds of wild members of its species outside the window. After Agee puts his bird out to join them, it is pecked to death. But there are lyric moments in this boyhood as well: slingshot escapades, fishing trips, and cowboys-and-Indians in abandoned Nazi foxholes. But that world ends with puberty...
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