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...anathema, and beauty contests are banned as "exploitations of human flesh." Small wonder, then, that the government frowned on a visit by "Miss World," Austria's Eva Reuber-Staier. "A society which annually parades its women like cattle to award them prizes," puffed a government newspaper, is "alien to our culture and sense of dignity." Purred Eva: "I am very sorry not to be going to Tanzania. I hear it's a wonderful country -with some very handsome cattle...
...Some creatures from other planets are apparently as attuned to our music and culture as we are. The Ran-dells ran into one such alien group and couldn't name a single dance that they couldn't do. Where were these creatures from...
...Nobody's mentioned it yet, but it seems to me that the possibilities of sabotage or attack by an alien spaceship are not remote...
...underground press serves in many capacities. It incorporates the aesthetic and mystic potential of a flowering "hippie" civilization. It saves its readers from a dependence on the often depressively alien news biases of the establishment media, so that radicals can keep their ranks together with the stimulation of rhetoric and exhortation. And ever since the creation of the Liberation News Service in 1967, the Movement press has shown increasing signs of permanency and coordination...
...part, a translator's job is to act as a sensitive and knowledgeable link between alien cultures. The incredible range and idiosyncrasy of Grass's language make extraordinary demands on any translator. Heaps of new coinages are typical in Grass's books, as with "Knochenberg" (bone mountain), which Grass used to describe the enormous pile of human bones lying outside the processing plant in Dog Years. Leaps of Grass's imagination incongruously link references to obscure moments in Polish and German history, folklore, pop songs and blasphemous echoes from the Catholic Mass (relics of Grass...