Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clearing the way for rescue teams, police ordered the rock band to stop playing but permitted the Russians to continue their concert. Enraged, the youngsters attacked the police Hurling bottles, sticks and planks and smashing the windows of surrounding buildings, the crowd howled, "Biermann, Biermann"-referring to Poet-Balladeer Wolf Biermann, one of many dissident East German artists and intellectuals who have been forced into exile (TIME, Oct. 3). More menacingly, the rioters began to chant, "Russians out! Russians out!" East German officials were unable to downplay the riot, which was seen by some Western diplomats. Eyewitnesses reported that...
...first notable victim of the exile policy was Balladeer-Poet Wolf Biermann, 40, who was refused permission to re-enter East Germany last November after a tour in the West. Government officials, who charged Biermann with "defamation" of East Germany abroad, had evidently been stung by some of the jabbing questions raised in his irony-laden songs. The government's action provoked an unprecedented storm of protest, led by twelve prominent East German writers and artists. Many of those who signed the petition for Biermann's readmission were either coerced into withdrawing their names or fired from their...
Influential American Jews eagerly accepted this version. Argues Chicago Businessman Gary Ratner: "It wasn't terrorism for terrorism's sake. They were trying to create a country, not destroy it." Critics were rebuffed. Among them is Rabbi Arnold Wolf, Jewish chaplain at Yale and national chairman of Breira, the movement that wants Israel to return to the Arabs all the territory conquered in the 1967 war except for Jerusalem. Asks Wolf: "Why can't I call him a right-wing fanatic? I think it's outrageous that American Jews are supposed to suppress their feelings...
...GOAT, THE WOLF, AND THE CRAB
Such slips are rare. The Goat, the Wolf, and the Crab raises troubling questions about the worth of inherited values; it engages the mind as well as the emo tions. The line between this novel and a three-handkerchief tearjerker is the hard edge of truth...