Word: sudeten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hipster-Nihilist. The device that Fuentes uses to launch the novel is as old as Chaucer: a group on a pilgrimage-in this case, figurative rather than literal. It is Holy Week, and packed into a Volkswagen en route from Mexico City to Veracruz are Franz, a Sudeten German who once worked as an architect in a Nazi concentration camp; Isabel, his thrill-a-minute cutie; Javier, a middle-aged dud poet; and Elizabeth, his love-starved (as distinguished from sex-starved) wife. Though each is in search of an intensely personal salvation, each represents a familiar 20th century type...
...longtime (1949-66) West German Transport Minister; of a lung clot; in Bonn. As a public servant, Seebohm swiftly rebuilt and expanded Germany's war-ravaged railroads, autobahns, ports and waterways. As a politician, he was signally less successful. His incessant clamor for the return of the Sudeten-land-yielded to Hitler in 1938 and handed back to Czechoslovakia in 1945 -was a constant embarrassment to the Bonn government...
...Administration seems to be working with only one historic model of aggression, namely, that which would make it the Viet Cong today's counterpart of Hitler's Sudeten Germans, about to deliver up a stalwartly democratic Asian Czechoslovakia! Stubborn and unimaginative anti-Chamberlain-ship is perhaps as anachronistic and inept in the face of nationalist-Communist guerilla warfare as was the Braddock-Cornwallis military complex in coping with revolutionary American backwoods patriots supplied by France. American policy should reflect our full awareness of the anti-colonial, nationalist fervor that pervades great parts of Asian and Africa." (emphesis added...
Revealing Sign. Inevitably, there have been disappointments. About 10% of the refugees still live in substandard housing, including 700 Silesian and Sudeten Germans whose flowerpots and television antennas eerily sprout from the reconverted barracks at Dachau. Many still feel that they are worse off now than they were in their old homes. Only one out of six farmers tills his own land; when he does, it is on a much smaller plot than he owned in the East...
...collapse of the Refugee Party, which once had 27 seats in the Bundestag. It has had no national voice since 1957; last month in Lower Saxony, where refugees comprise about 25% of the population, it polled a scant 3.7% of the vote during state elections. Says Hans Koplitz, a Sudeten German who now owns a prosperous laundry and dry-cleaning establishment in Munich: "At most, we pay lip service to the idea of returning to our homelands...