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...what the Germans call "Zeit zum umdenken"-time to think it over. General Eisenhower's declaration that the German soldier never lost his honor soothed much injured pride. Oddly enough, Neo-Nazi Ernst Remer (TIME, May 21) has also been helpful. A German veteran explained how: "When that scum Remer started lambasting rearmament, we soldiers figured rearmament must be the right thing." Two other factors: rising prosperity gives the Germans a feeling they have something to defend; and Allied successes in Korea suggest that joining the West is not joining the hopeless side...
...scene showed a poor young Negro boy polishing the boots of an American naval officer . . . He begged for his pay of 10?. The officer's answer was a blow in the face that almost knocked the boy off his chair . . . The officer said: 'He is only Negro scum. My name is John Smith. My father made billions in the last world war. He just bought me a snappy eight-cylinder auto . . . A while ago I was driving 60 miles an hour and turned a sharp corner where two Negroes were sitting. I just ran over them ... We lynch...
...Immigrant. The Puerto Rican migrant is neither Puerto Rico's scum, nor its ignorant, nor its shiftless, as he is often pictured. The average immigrant is better educated (six years of school) than the island's average, Columbia found, and almost all of them left jobs in Puerto Rico. Nor is he a peasant. Most come from the island's two biggest cities, San Juan and Ponce...
...William Baziotes, 38, used titles too. His Mummy, a formless fungus floating in green scum, was rich and strange enough to stick in the mind's eye-whether one wanted it there or not. Baziotes' confections of molasses-sweet color and protoplasmic shapes are never planned in advance. "Each painting," he once explained, "comes about in a different way. Some are started with a few touches of color, others with lines. Sometimes nothing happens. I have to give up. But when the urge comes I work swiftly. When I am finished, the painting means something...
...much to ask of anyone. All of the other rural jokes are there, too: the Scars, Roebuck catalogue, the outhouses are good for two laughs, and so on. Several of the lines are of questionable taste, and one remark goes beyond bad taste. It occurs when the political scum, Hominy Smith, toys with the idea of becoming president. "Why not," he asks, "Truman did it, didn't he?" That seems to me clearly over the line...