Word: konrad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passion that has increasingly dominated Hawkes' recent books (The Blood Oranges, Travesty) is sex; The Passion Artist, his eighth novel, dwells still more obsessively on this subject. The title begins in irony. Konrad Vost is neither passionate nor an artist but rather an epitome of timid rationality. Hawkes stresses his hero's stylized anonymity, his "small perfectly round gold-rimmed spectacles, his two ill-fitting suits of black serge, his black turtleneck shirts, his pointed shoes that were always worn at the heels and covered with a faint dusting of powdered concrete from the walls of unfinished buildings...
...emanating from Bonn. Long reluctant to exercise a leadership equal to its political and economic strengths, West Germany has finally come of age as a Continental power. Much of the credit for this belongs to Helmut Schmidt. More than any other postwar Chancellor since der Alte?the late Konrad Adenauer?Schmidt has shouldered his way into the front row of international leaders and has increasingly shown that he is not afraid to play a great-power role. Thanks largely to Schmidt's imposing political skills, says one ranking British diplomat, "the West Germans have moved from an occupation mentality...
Whether or not football induced the glow, the Class of '54 saw Harvard, then as now, as idyllic home. The distinguished lecturers and guests--Bertrand Russell, T.S. Eliot, Konrad Adenauer, Archibald MacLeish's audiences spilled out into the Yard--came and went...
...Symposium on Burgundy--lectures by Ingrid Brainard, Jan Siggins, Arthur L. Loeb, Peter Jordan, Robert Bousquet, Konrad Oberhuber, and Barbara Wheaton; Emerson 210, 10 a.m.-12 noon; Boyiston Auditorium...
...tale of how a Pole named Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski became the English novelist Joseph Conrad is as crammed with accidents and uncertainties as any of his fictions. It has been told before, but not recently and never in such detail. Biographer Frederick R. Karl, a professor of English at the City University of New York, has sifted through all the documents and some 4,000 surviving Conrad letters, including 1,500 never published. The blank spaces left in this portrait are probably there for good. Conrad covered his tracks carefully, destroying letters written to him, telling different...