Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than Reality. The memoir itself is lesser Lawrence in philosophy ("Sex is almost the essence of living"), and the style is the still lesser English that might be expected of a Prussian baron's daughter. But the letters are delightful and perceptive. Most startlingly, they reveal that Frieda was at least as sexually uninhibited as Lawrence himself professed to be (which was a good deal more than he was in reality...
...rear ends!" Worse, Nappy's teammates refused to help when his front tire went pffft. "If I win at. Waterloo, I'll give you a big share of the prize money," whined the Emperor. Mais non! Who should hit the tape first at the Waterloo velodrome? That Prussian ringer, Marshal Blücher. Merde alors...
...disguised as people. They reappear in this grim foray into Hitler-corrupted Germany, but the author of The Manchurian Candidate has turned from dismayed humor to dismaying homily. Condon's current princess is an enormously wealthy, unbelievably beautiful Frenchwoman; though Jewish, she is married to a monocle-twirling Prussian general who cannot see the evil of Hitler until their adored child dies in a Jewish concentration camp. They retaliate by consigning the guilty SS officer to a grisly fate. However, the novel does not keep its implicit promise to find meaning in mankind's acquiescence in evil. Worse...
Soldier at the Top. Perhaps the best guarantee against that was Castello Branco, the man chosen as President. Brazilian Social Historian Gilberto Freyre once described him as "a soldier from head to toe, a military man without Prussian arrogance, and one of the greatest Brazilian intellectuals not just in the armed forces but in the entire nation." An up-from-the-ranks infantryman who led Brazilian troops in Italy in World War II, Castello Branco is a lover of good music, reads avidly in four languages, has lived in both France and the U.S., and is reported to have...
...good one. A prostitute is found brutally stabbed to death in wartime Warsaw; a witness claims to have seen a German general leaving her apartment. Major Grau of the Abwehr narrows the suspects down to three: General von Seydlitz-Gabler, a cautious, ineffectual commanding officer representing the Prussian military tradition; Major General Kahlenberge, his able and acerb chief of staff; and Lieutenant General Tanz, the dashing leader of the Nibelungen (Special Operations) Division. But Major Grau is reassigned, and does not resume his investigation until 1944--two years later--when, with all the generals in Paris a similar murder...