Word: linde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRAVELS TO THE ENU by Jakov Lind...
...when Jakov Lind was an eleven-year-old schoolboy, the Nazis goose-stepped into his home city of Vienna, sending him fleeing to Holland and a lifetime of Diaspora. Something more than a Jew without a country, Lind became a displaced artist as well, without a sure tradition or even a language. He wrote at first in German; now he uses English. He lives in London, in New York, in Majorca. He has variously conducted his literary experiments in short stories (Soul of Wood), novels (Landscape in Concrete), autobiography (Counting My Steps) and even scores of radio plays...
Like Giinter Grass, his old colleague in the German writers' impromptu workshop Group 47, Lind has evolved less an answer to lunacy than a technique for exposing it. In every work he manages to reduce history to a wild nightmare from which one wakes up laughing. In his latest novel, with a nod to Jonathan Swift, grand master of the savage laugh and the surreal voyage, Lind sets sail on one of his most inspired trips...
...Tigers took command of the final day's action in the very first event as Liz Richardson and Diana Caskey ran one-two in the 1650-yd freestyle. Betsy Lind scored a second for Princeton in the next race, the 100-yd freestyle, and the trophy was on its way back to New Jersey...
...freestyle--1 Richardson Princeton 16:52.50: 2 Caskey, Princeton, 16:59.20; 3 Krauser Penn State 17 12 95 100-yd freestyle--1 Jackson Pittsburgh 51 10 Lind, Princeton, 52.23: 3. Ujevich Pittsburgh 52 87 50-yd backstroke--1 Simon Yale 27.57; 2. Poiner, Brown, 27.80; 3. McCluskey, B.U., 27.82, 200-yd breaststroke--1 Torney, Brown, 2:25.79; 2. Fifth, Pittsburgh, 2:26.49; 3. Woolfolk, Brown, 2:27.33. 50-yd. butterfly-1. Jackson, Pittsburgh, 25.38; 2. Vietz, Yale, 27.72; 3 Lind, Princeton, 25.84. 100-yd. individual medley-1. Ujevich, Pittsburgh, 59.27; 2 Kali Princeton, 1.00:83. 3. Poirier, Brown...