Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weapon development. Furthermore, extraordinary care has been exercised to assure that expensive new scientific projects like the Accelerator do not commit the university to permanent investment. When they have outlived their usefulness these facilities will be eliminated far more easily than smaller ones contributed by private donors in the past...
...government withdrew its support a large fraction of the experimental research activities at this university would stop. Alternative support is simply unavailable. After the research activities had stopped, instruction would stagnate and degenerate. In the sciences, the university would be reduced to a college with a glorious past...
...engages in politics." As a campaigner for Willy Brandt, as a critic of Willy Brandt for allowing the Social Democrat Party to join in the Great Coalition with the Christian Democrats, Kurt Kiesinger's party, and as a president critic of Kiesinger, who took the Chancellorship with a Nazi past, Grass is acting as citizen and not as writer. He has not, however, thrown over his writing desk. The same man who wrote about the "bourgeois smug" and the Onion Cellar in The Tin Drum and about Germany's "economic miracle" and the meal worms in Dog Years...
...readers of his novels: "This speech was conceived in Maryland, U.S.A., on the Atlantic coast. You may ask: Didn't this man have anything better to do amid dunes, billboards and deserted beach hotels than to meditate on conditions in West Germany? Why didn't he stick to his past and spend his time thinking up the usual stories?" But once he has justified his position on the platform, Grass moves on to serious and substantial criticism of German society and politics. He wants"Splinter Parties," those with less than five per cent of the vote, to be represented...
...took office, is reprinted in this book. In a later speech, Grass notes that Kiesinger never answered the letter. He damns Kiesinger not so much for his membership in the Nazi party from 1933 to the end, but for his gall in then, without any reference to his past, becoming leader of the West German Republic, which is supposedly trying to live down the past...