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...Living a pleasant life, however, does not erase ambivalence about the past. The Moseses, for example, are concerned that Germans gloss over guilt for the Hitler years and the Holocaust by focusing on their own suffering during World War II. The feeling transcends the generations. Says Ariel Karmeli, 25, born in Frankfurt to Jewish parents hailing from Syria and Iran: "My culture is German. Frankfurt is my city. Germany is my country. But here I must constantly justify myself to others. When I get on a bus and see an old man, I ask myself, 'What...
That is sure to occasion anguished edification for those who study the language of Goethe, Kafka and Freud, but it may provide a few pleasant surprises as well. As my own recent and none-too-elegant plunge into the language at the Goethe-Institut in Berlin demonstrated, learning German is hardly the ordeal of a lifetime, but neither is there an escalator up the magic mountain of fluency...
Eleven voices and plenty of topics. Pleasant and not so pleasant memories of school days. Personal achievements and setbacks. National guilt. Pride in a democracy and in the European family. And finally, astonishment at something not expected in their lifetime: impending unification. "We are part of the rubble generation," says Hartmut Ruge, managing editor of the daily Recklinghauser Zeitung. "A generation of moral disorientation and guilt. Now there is normality...
...rock and a hard place," said Texas Governor William Clements last week. After two vetoes, he had finally accepted a $520 million sales-tax increase to comply with a state supreme court order to remedy disparities in school spending. "There was no other way. It was not a pleasant circumstance, and it's not one that I am happy with," he said. Clements may have been protesting too much. Texas politicians are practiced at shifting the blame onto judges: last year the state approved a $400 million bond issue for new prisons after the state supreme court ruled that crowded...
...senior honors Government concentrator, I find myself caught between pleasant memories of running to Littauer to turn in my thesis four weeks ago and the not-so-pleasant thought of having to take generals at the end of April...