Word: tailored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made himself a servant. This understanding is often missing, or at best offers the cold comfort of wisdom after the event. As his first political experience-when he was a boy of five in his home town in the German Saarland-Regler recalls watching a policeman drag the local tailor by the ear up the town hall steps to face judgment for some obscure misdeed. From that moment on, compassion for any victim whose ears were twisted by authority animated Gustav Regler-but also led him to join political forces that knew no compassion...
Regler's book is an important memoir for anyone with a serious concern for the moral and political history of the last 40 years. Those who make themselves responsible for every fallen sparrow-or the twisted ear of every tailor-give themselves godlike rank but inevitably end in quite another echelon. This, if there is one, is Regler's message to his generation...