Word: stein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stein Also Attacks Exams...
Like Geary, Jack M. Stein, professor of German, contended "the tests aren't adequate." "The German tests were devised some years ago and no longer fit the instruction that goes on in the classroom," Stein declared...
This flawless (because meaningless) fragment of prose is offered as a parody of the once-famed gibberish of Gertrude Stein, and is the work of an unknown writer, Arthur Flegenheimer. It is one of the more recondite items in this anthology of Dwight Macdonald, critic, polemicist and New Yorker staff writer. To see just how recondite it is, the reader must not miss the footnote, in which it is disclosed that the obscure Flegenheimer is Mobster Dutch Schultz, and that the Stein "parody" is a police stenographer's transcript of his dying delirium. Such thimbleriggery is a fair sample...
Youngest and toughest member of Adenauer's Cabinet, Strauss is a man most Germans expect will surely rule Germany some day. He looks as German as a stein of beer. A hulking man (5 ft. n in., 190 Ibs.) with the powerful chest of a onetime cycling champion, he walks with the stiff, lurching gait of a Bavarian peasant. His eyes are small and blue, his head square and massive. But inside the square head of this butcher's son is a fantastically retentive brain that gobbles up details of technology and digests the lumpiest government problem...
...nation does want a rapidly economy, however, Stein that a large number of small would achieve the most results at least cost. His suggestions included immigration quotas, reducing on high income brackets, breaking monopolies, increasing educational and discouraging further in working hours...