Word: zeinvel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being sure of deeper meanings, is the one truth they can be sure of, the "dust, dust, dust" of change. Change can almost overwhelm even, those who accept the prophets' castigating words, who accept responsibility for their actions and say, however reluctantly, that that's meaning enough. There's Zeinvel Gardiner, an intellectual who's survived 20 years of turmoil in Poland including stays in fascist and Stalinist prison camps, who turns up in Paris with a new wife, determined to start a little magazine to tell people the truth. Zeinvel's wife is less optimistic than...
...what should we do, Friedele?' Zeinvel asked. 'Look and keep quiet...
...Zeinvel winds up as dust, too, but the narrator of the story runs into a humorist friend "someone had told me that a tragedian had gone off with his wife while they were both fleeing the Nazis"--at the funeral...
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