Word: kafka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carriers, swinging everything from stone hammers to 120-mm. mortars. But under the two centuries of the British raj, a structure of government and administration was slowly imposed on this subcontinent of chaos. What threatens it today is bureaucracy-an Indian nightmare more overwhelming than anything dreamed of by Kafka. District officials, who are nominally responsible for the "community development" of India's 567,000 villages, must file 280 reports to New Delhi a month. Development Minister S. K. Dey ruefully admits that none of the reports are read but brightly points out that all are dutifully filed away...
...that "diversity of style is peculiar to art and literature," he has gone even farther than Dej in freeing Rumanian artists from strict socialist realism. Abstractionist vernissages are blossoming along Bucharest's fashionable Boulevard Magheru, and even top party people can be seen carting home a nonobjective painting. Kafka is all the rage, and more American movies than Russian are running in Bucharest's cinemas; the Broadway play Rhinoceros was a theater season sellout, and not just because lonesco is a Rumanian. Last week, as if for the edification of his distinguished guests, Ceausescu permitted Western newspapers...
...Okamura describes his experiences in the current issue of LIFE, the next few weeks were like passages from an Oriental Kafka. The villages he visited changed hands with maniacal rapidity. Once he saw a convoy sweep by, heavily guarded by U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers who protected themselves from ambush by spraying the jungle on each side with machine-gun fire. No sooner had the convoy passed than 500 Viet Cong on bicycles emerged from the jungle and pedaled madly in pursuit until it was out of sight. On his devious journey to guerrilla headquarters, Okamura was escorted...
...Black Monkey." Each foreign student shares a room with a Russian in former. His mail goes through so many censors that "the letters get worn out." The level of instruction is disappointing, the lessons ruled by dogma. Bureaucracy is so dismayingly dominant in Soviet life that Kafka seems to have replaced Marx and Lenin as the prophet of Communism...
Baeck, who died nine years ago, is revered as a saint of modern Judaism, and as one of the last towering figures of the German Jewish renaissance that produced such men as Freud, Einstein, Kafka and Martin Buber. Born in Prussia, he studied philosophy at the University of Berlin, and as a rabbi in Silesia, Dusseldorf and Berlin emerged as one of Germany's great articulators of Reform Judaism. When Protestant Theologian Adolf von Harnack declared Judaism to be a spiritually inferior faith in his The Essence of Christianity, Baeck replied with The Essence of Judaism. Baeck defended Judaism...