Word: lederhosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Metaphysical Lederhosen...
...large, activist. Significantly, Nobel prizewinning Novelist Hermann Hesse no longer exerts a strong pull on young West Germans. To them, Hesse's romantic mystique of the outsider and his preoccupation with passive Oriental philosophies has about it what British Critic D. J. Enright calls "the smell of metaphysical Lederhosen." Hesse's appeal is largely to those racked by uncertainty and disillusion, which explains his vogue on U.S. campuses and, in the early postwar period, among Germany's youth...
...crowds that Grass draws include both old people in Lederhosen and shawls and young people in beards and sandals. There are usually hecklers from either the far left or the far right. The New Left calls Grass a "liberal crap-head" and a "traitor to socialism." The right-wing National Democratic Party derides Grass as a "porno," because his works are peppered with four-letter words. Grass treats extremists from both sides with contempt, reminding audiences that "socialism when coupled with anarchism leads to fascism...
...Monks & Mothers. The many camera-toting tourists who joined the lederhosen-and dirndl-clad Bavarians were welcomed by the Löwenbräu representatives with more than the usual enthusiasm. Reason: 582-year-old Löwenbräu, the largest Bavarian brewery, is pressing exports harder than ever. Its domestic sales are concentrated in Bavaria (well-entrenched regional breweries dominate elsewhere in Germany) and Bavarian consumption is flattening out despite the low cost of a pint bottle of beer (13?). Löwenbräu's rising exports to 100 nations now account...
Munich last week was going all the way with L.B.J. A Bavarian brass band clad in lederhosen oompahed California, Here I Come while lusty stein clankers wearing campaign hats and Johnson buttons roared out "Prosit!" But in Paris they were shouting for "Goldwater in '64" as Republicans gathered in a mirrored conference room at the Ritz and collected $1,000 in campaign funds at the first passage...