Word: sepp
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...when the journalist Friedrich Benjamin is kidnapped into Germany and Sepp is called to work at his desk, he uncorks a talent for satire so useful that uneasily he neglects his music...
...spring of that year Sepp Trautwein is still just a warm-tempered Munich bourgeois living in voluntary exile: unappreciative of his excellent wife, writing a piece now & then for the exiles' paper, the Paris Gazette, working hard and slowly at his gifted, rather frigid music...
Thanks considerably to Sepp's print-lashings, Nazis-about-town become annoyed with the Gazette, hatch a scheme to buy over its angel. When Sepp is fired, the whole staff walks out after him, starts a rival paper. Sepp, frantic by now to get back to his music, is caught again...
...Unto Seppänen's Sun and Storm (Bobbs-Merrill, $2.50) traces the rise of a Finnish peasant to wealth and power. Sombre, heavy, conscientious, its handicap is that too many sombre, heavy, conscientious peasant novels have preceded...
...fortnight ago the Socialist Speaker and the two Vice Speakers of the Nationalrat (the only men empowered to convene it) resigned, apparently with the idea that in view of so much Fascist agitation it would be better that the parliament should not meet. Last week Second Vice Speaker President Sepp Straffner changed his mind, ordered the parliament to convene March...