Word: schatz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last stage. The stage is Auschwitz, and his audience is a German firing squad. But he seizes the opportunity for a last punch line. He turns his naked rump to the executioners and says: "Kush mir in tokhes!," which in Yiddish means "Kiss my ass!" Herr Captain Schatz, the man who has been placidly shooting Jews down on order, is so shaken that he accords Cohn the unusual respect of examining the corpse and ordering it clothed. Seeing an opportunity to keep his act going, Cohn's ghost slips into Schatz's dank subconscious...
...this unlikely premise, Romainian Gary has constructed a wildly funny, and ultimately mordant picaresque novel. The time is 20 years later, and Schatz has become police chief of a German town, though still captive straight man to Genghis Cohn's raucous spirit. "It has been my fate," says Cohn, "to add a new dimension to the legend of the Wandering Jew: that of the immanent Jew, omnipresent, entirely assimilated, forever part of each atom of the German earth, air and conscience." Night after night, he sits on Schatz's bedpost, teaching him Yiddish and the art of Jewish...
...Schatz, accompanied by his ghost, is confronted with the murders of 22 men, all of whom were discovered with their pants off and beatific smiles on their faces. "It's the crime of the century," says Schatz. Cohn, as a representative of 6,000,000 slaughtered Jews, looks at him reproachfully...
...Alden Trophy Giant Slalom Saturday, Radcliffe's Robin Barnes placed third with a running time of 73.6 seconds, behind Kelly Woodbury of Cornell at 71.1 and Astrid Meergans of Simmons with a 73.4-second run. Cliffies Ginny Storrs and Carla Schatz took fifth and eighth places...