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...moves to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art on Nov. 22, deals with an aspect of modernism that 15 years ago was thought hardly worth discussing. What could be further from the concerns of Matisse or Braque than the images to which German intellectuals gave the name Neue Sachlichkeit - "new objectivity"? There, in contrast to the French tradition of measure, delectation and ordered feeling, of art "above" politics, was a cold, laconic, even squalid-looking art that wanted to contribute its voice to the tormented political theater of the Weimar Republic. It was antiexpressionist too; painters like Otto...
...clarification, of ideological realism, of diplomatic maturity in international relations." Never again, he predicted, would a local event, such as "the assassination of an archduke in the Balkans, unleash a world conflict." Yet while the two powers refrain from attacking each other, Bonn's pro-government paper Neue Rhein Zeitung contended, they "tacitly reserve the right to continue beating, tormenting and destroying the other partner's little brother...
Other European voices, mindful of the dubious value of nonaggression pacts and the tragic history of earlier German-Soviet diplomatic cooperation, raised warnings. "The haste on both sides," wrote Neue Zurcher Zeitung. "poses the question "Who plucked the rose before it bloomed?' Is it a success of West Germany's Ostpolitik or Soviet WestpolitikT' London's Economist pointed out that while the Russians talk peace in Europe, they are extending their sphere of influence in Asia, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the South Atlantic. "This is not the behavior of a country looking...
...translator, of course, especially if his author knows both languages involved (as does Grass), can win every time. In German, the last line of Local Anaesthetic is "immer neue Schmerzen," or always new pains. Manheim translated it as "There will always be pain." For his taste, Gunter Grass finds that far too full of resignation...
...Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich)-The most individual, the most serious, the most responsible and the most cosmopolitan. From its lofty pinnacle in its neutral and freedom-loving country, it views all the world with a cold and intellectual detachment...