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...second book Grass has turned to another grotesque-a gawky adolescent named Joachim Mahlke who is afflicted by a quivering excrescence of flesh over his Adam's apple. But if Grass still views life largely as a kind of Gothic sideshow, he permits himself, as he did not in the earlier book, a saving touch of human compassion. As a dwarf who had seceded from the adult world in order to survive in it, Oskar remained a skeptical spectator of absurdity. Through the muted and melancholy chronicle of Mahlke's brief life, Grass seems to say that deformed...
...remarkable success story in itself, but the happiest part of it was West's relationship to his students. When he settled in London after completing his studies in Rome, the art world was turning back to antiquity. The Allentown show includes samples of the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, for it was he who gave the movement its rallying cry: "There is but one way for the moderns to become great, and perhaps unequaled; I mean, by imitating the ancients." In his early years, West took his themes largely from mythology and, like the Greeks, sought not only...
...Jersey's Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the congress, began by declaring: "American Jews believe they will survive as a group in a country which is traditionally a nation of groups. Those who do not accept these facts will never succeed in understanding the uniqueness of American Jewry." Unwilling to accept this claim was Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion, who has often declared that Jews, wherever they might be in the world, owe their first allegiance to Israel. American Jews, he predicted, will be swallowed up as the U.S. evolves into an integrated nation in the next...
...Gouffé Case, by Joachim Maass. A period murder tale...
...Gouffé Case, by Joachim Maass. The clip-clop of hansoms and the sighs of lovelorn dandies provide mood music for this period murder tale...