Word: laden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal indictment for sedition, Agitator Corey fled the country in 1920, in Moscow got a hero's welcome and a disillusioning first look at the new workers' paradise. Back in the U.S. and no longer a party member, he turned out a set of widely read, statistics-laden tracts (The House of Morgan, The Decline of American Capitalism, etc.), became a leading anti-Communist educator in the U.S. labor movement, a professor of political economy at Antioch College...
Just as offbeat, but with a U.S. setting, though it might be anywhere, is Oscar Tarcov's first novel, Bravo My Monster (Regnery). Tarcov is no Franz Kafka, his obvious master, but his symbol-laden story of a man imprisoned in his own home by a monster generates high tension...
Every German party is wooing them, but one excels all the rest. The All-German Bloc (BHE) began as the League of Expellees and Victims of Injustice. Today it is the private political vehicle of a Polish-born, ex-SS captain named Waldemar Kraft. In the refugee-laden farm steads near the Danish border, Kraft's name is magic. In 1950 he ran up 23% of the vote in local elections in Schleswig-Holstein. BHE might win 40 to 50 seats in the Bundestag...
...people remember Adolf Hitler as a thinker. Yet he was one-the kind that is all too frequently found in saloons or on park benches, spinning grandiose, hate-laden theories about the world, tossing off answers to all questions in a manner that the Germans call dumm-schlau (stupid-smart). Such men are usually ignored by others as annoying but unimportant cranks. By a tragedy of history, Adolf Hitler gained the power to put his rambling, dumm-schlaue theories into practice...
...before and were bored, but they sat helplessly drowsing into the morning, a captive audience. Only Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, ever did anything about it. She would pointedly ask the Führer the time. Hitler usually took the hint and closed the window on the refuse-laden backyard of his mind...