Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among its staff and George Grosz among its cartoonists; it had published the maiden work of Heinrich Mann and Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as stories by De Maupassant, Chekhov, Strindberg and Hamsun. Under the Kaiser, its Cartoonist-Editor Heine had been imprisoned in a fortress for the sin of reflecting too faithfully "the physiognomy of the reigning class, [of] too ostentatious Government officials . . . officers . . . Junkers [and] the subservient spirit of the small bourgeoisie." In this tradition, Simplicissimus also faithfully recorded each new step in Adolf Hitler's rise to power-a rise which Simpl found too ludicrous...
...Alien Sin. The war brought Peggy and Surrealist Max Ernst together in Marseilles. Says she: "He had white hair and big blue eyes and a handsome, beaklike nose resembling a bird's. He was exquisitely made. . . . When I began my affair with Max Ernst it was not serious but soon I discovered that I was in love with him." They fled to the U.S. together, and while Ernst painted feathered nudes, Peggy got her Manhattan gallery under...
They were married after Pearl Harbor, because Ernst was German and Peggy "did not like the idea of living in sin with an enemy alien. . . . Max could not understand English and when he was asked to wed me, he understood wet, which he repeated...
Back to Beer. At first F. W. thought that the new era's Olympians were satisfied with their uneventful life. Later, he was secretly informed that more & more Astromentalists were plotting to recreate the old world of pain and sin. In remote regions these retrogrades had made settlements where they kept chickens, cats, drank beer, traded, worshiped in churches, and raised families like beasts...
...this story of thugs and trulls, enough sin and mayhem occurs (or is about to) on every page to remind U.S. readers of James M. Cain. The complete, animal innocence of its hero-a sort of Id with pants down-is funny, scary, and fascinating. But the sailor is not going to like the two missing chapters. After raising the promise of Cain for the first 207 pages, Author Butler subsides into a tea-and-marmalade finish...