Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puts it, "The mortal microcosm cannot forgive the relative immortality of the macrocosm. The whiskey bears a grudge against the decanter." Half from fear, half from the desire to have the child Jan cannot give her, Eva sleeps with a friend (Gunnar Björnstrand) who has become a partisan leader. Jan discovers the couple and becomes a gross caricature of himself. Formerly, he could not even kill a chicken; now he contrives to empty a revolver into the partisan; soon he becomes a thief who has no compunction about shooting a youthful soldier for his boots. The monstrous metamorphosis...
...Cronyism" is widespread in the agency. Partisan politics is the main determinant of who gets what positions...
...which comes on the scene next month after the greatest prepublication fanfare since Death of a President. The plot tells the sexual misadventures of Alex Portnoy from priapic adolescence in Newark to insatiable maturity in New York City government. Excerpts have appeared in the New American Review and Partisan Review as well as in Esquire, and the unpublished book has already earned over half a million dollars. Its real value, though, lies in Roth's revelation of a brilliant urban intelligence confronting the chaos of modern life and his own psyche -written with irony, outrage and hysterical laughter...
Reprisals against the partisans were stepped up. Farms and crops were burned, hostages were selected and shot. Yet partisan activity increased, and with it atrocities on both sides. By fall, the Germans' military front was deteriorating rapidly and their escape route was still threatened. Kesselring's frustration turned into a cold fury, which vented itself on the 4,000 residents of Monte Sole. From Sept. 29 through Oct. 1, SS death squads visited Monte Sole's villages and rounded up, shot down, grenaded and then burned more than 1,800 inhabitants. Most of them were women...
...there is little closeness between the two men. In office, Kiesinger has shown a growing penchant for procrastination and indecisiveness, qualities Strauss dislikes and does not share. Kiesinger's recent suggestion of a prolonged coalition with the Social Democrats also runs counter to Strauss's highly developed partisan instincts. Increasingly reluctant to take part in a coalition Cabinet in which the Chancellor, as one Kiesinger aide put it, is no more than "a walking mediation committee," Strauss has been touting himself as the dynamic leader of a right-wing movement that stands ready to take over the country...