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...cool, cloistered spaces, the casts of the great bronze doors at Hildesheim, are visited only by a few ghosts, like myself, from the glorious days of Charles Kuhn. "Es ist der Geist der sich den Korper baut" (spirit creates the body) can still be read on the facade, but today's spirit is one of greed. Werner Otto's name could hardly adorn an air-conditioning machine, no matter how expensive...
...cause Nazis but by teenagers with crewcuts and black boots. The neo-Nazism is mostly an eastern manifestation, but it shows up in the west as well. In Bonn, the municipal symbol of a reformed and repentant Germany, a sidewalk last month blossomed with a childish scrawl: (swastika sign) IST...
Near Matthies' home lies a memorial stone engraved with the words DEUTSCHLAND IST UNTEILBAR (Germany is indivisible), placed there three decades ago by a private organization. Yet Zicherie and the East German town of Bockwitz, just across the double fence, were divided for 32 years. In the old days, getting from Zicherie to Bockwitz entailed a drive of 120 miles and special permission, rarely given, to enter the border zone. Few took the trouble. On Nov. 14 East German workers cut the wire, and now hundreds of two- stroke Trabants pour across the line every day, loaded with East German...
...selfish self-indulgent pursuits and have no cause to struggle for. But once we recognize that the satisfaction of our primal urges is our primary responsibility to society, I say that we will have a cause to struggle for--the liberation of our society from its patriarchal, heterocentric, food-ist, fecaphobic capitalism...
Looking back, I think I know why the Swiss woman was so rude. After all, it's as if two kids popped out of the Coop and said, brightly, "Wo ist Cambridge...