Word: sentient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Staeglich's book maintains that the Nazi murder of six million European Jews is nothing more than "Zionist atrocity propaganda." Because this thesis is so obscene, so repugnant to any sentient 20th century human. Staeglich and his book--and the recent reaction to both in West Germany--raise the kinds of question about intellectual freedom one hopes never to encounter outside an ethics class...
...Plante, a young American writer living in London. Plante, who later became an accomplished novelist (The Family, The Woods), set out to help Rhys write an autobiography. He candidly recalls, "I wondered if my deepest interest in her was as a writer I could take advantage of." But the sentient novelist who had written the melancholy Good Morning, Midnight in 1939 was long gone. She spent most of their time together drinking gin and sweet vermouth and babbling away in a pitiful parody of her once considerable style and charm. Plante spares us few of the clinical symptoms...
...around for weeks at a time; eventually, he says, they forgot that they were being watched. "Sure, they might be put off for a day or two," he says, "but very soon they would stop thinking about us and get on with their lives. Our crews became like wallpaper, sentient wallpaper...