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West Germany's 400,000-man army is the most important single factor that gives NATO a remaining degree of reality. Yet much of the West still expects the uniforms of its German allies to be made of sackcloth. Erhard may be an honored guest in the U.S., as he is this week; the British may graciously send their Queen to visit, or the French artfully try to woo Bonn away from the American alliance-but the Germans still feel unloved. "Joyous bonfires burn in the night sky all around Germany as her former enemies celebrate their victory...
There were reports that coach Bob Blackman went home and cried for three days and then put on sackcloth and ashes There were reports that the football team got only coals and vinegar at the Dartmouth training table for the next week...
Devil's Footboard. That their youngest son took up art was reason for sackcloth and ashes at the Aronson home. His first one-man show drew a drubbing from the Jewish Daily Forward's art critic. Another critic called his seven-toot-long Last Supper, with its disciples writhing as if from indigestion, "a suitable footboard for the devil's bed." Recently a patriarch of the ultraorthodox Hasidim sect paid a visit to Aronson's studio and saw only apostasy. The patriarch's son, a bearded Hasidic rabbi last week came for a second despairing...
...Gate from Jordanian Jerusalem. The Orthodox Jews of Mea She'arim were dumfounded with outrage-and none more than a lean, hawk-eyed man who has a fair claim to the title of the world's most orthodox Orthodox Jew. On occasion, he even shows up in sackcloth and ashes. He is Amram Blau, 63, leader of a fanatical Mea She'arim sect called the Neturei Karta (guardians of the city). Sabbath elapsed. Then Blau exhorted his disciples, in broad-brimmed black hats, to loose volleys of stones, pelting city buses, breaking windows and injuring some cops...
...have always regarded exile as a little death. In sackcloth and ashes, Job lamented man's mortality as a kind of homelessness: "He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more." And Aeschylus, 500 years before Christ, wrote bitterly, "I know how men in exile feed on dreams." The military and political shocks of this century sent hordes of the dispossessed swarming over the earth-some 40 million people since World...