Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS GERMANY, by Rudolf Walter Leonhardt. An urbane German journalist analyzes his bustling nation and tries to explain what makes Germans one of the most admirable, and most disliked, of the world's peoples...
Germans. Italian Journalist Barzini finds his countrymen self-centered, corrupt and instinctively theatrical. But, unwittingly, he celebrates their warmth, spontaneity and fierce individuality...
...same position as the French, the English, cats, or tobacco," aphorizes Author Leonhardt. "To be hated for the right reasons is not always pleasant, but to be loved for the wrong ones can be downright embarrassing." With that essentially negative prelude out of the way, the West German journalist launches into a wry and gritty explanation of what it is like to be a German today. Leonhardt feels that the Germans are among the world's most unliked peoples, but his apologia gives a tough, fascinatingly qualified answer of yes to the question: "Do you like being a German...
...Semitism ("Since they murdered the Jews, the Germans are becoming more and more stupid"), the abominable German tourist ("His yearning to communicate assumes loudspeaker proportions as soon as he crosses the border"), the political decline of West German Protestantism (they are "protest-weary"). But Leonhardt is too thorough a journalist not to buttress his arguments with shocks of statistics and a quorum of quotes from sources as disparate as Madame de Staël ("Love of liberty has not been developed at all among the Germans") and Thomas Wolfe ("How can one speak of Munich...
...member of the family. A couple of drinks, a quiet dinner, brandy and cigars before the inn fire-and imperceptibly, from behind the urbanity and wit emerge the true facts of a marriage in shambles or of a mortal sickness. This is exactly the kind of book that Milanese Journalist Luigi Barzini has written to explain to the U.S. the delights and secret deficiencies of his countrymen's manners and morals...