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...articles and speeches, Grass has consistently attacked former members of the Nazi Party, including ex-Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and ex-Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss. In Cat and Mouse (1961), a nearly flawless small novel about German teenagers during World War II, Grass openly made fun of the Iron Cross?by having his hero dangle it in front of his genitals. Mad dreams of superstates, militarism and the kind of procrustean idealism that makes preposterous demands and holds out impossible hopes for society are inevitable Grassian targets. But Grass has also cleverly spun the coin of guilt to show...
...does he live now? Near a cafeteria, of course. "I still go to the cafeteria once in a while, but at least I have learned," Singer said wryly. "I know now exactly what happens." Mrs. Singer pushed his coffee closer to him. "No no, I like to talk and cat," he protested. "The food tastes better when you talk." Mrs. Singer tried to interest me in some toast with strawberry jam. I wasn't hungry, so she spread the jam thickly on a half-slice of toast and gave it to her husband...
...they are diminishing, are still found among older black workers; some doubt that a black manager will make a success of the business. Johnson, a graying man with an animated and emphatic manner, has not been easy on his 30 black employees. "When I walk around and see some cat leaning instead of working," he says, "my inclination is to tell him 'If you can lean, then clean.' I have tried to project an image of business for them to follow...
...train and a bellows huffing in the dark. Lust caught in his throat and he hummed and throbbed while Merilee, the cat now with the lutebright eyes, meowed and meowed...
...vomit after you took this magic Indian cure. I was once hospitalized for food poisoning, but it wasn't that, I had been eating weeds." On another much later occasion, Horovitz, in Italy, was watching a play in which he thought an actor was going to kill a cat. Horovitz become so agitated that he ran from his seat on to the stage and snatched the cat from the actor's hand. There was also an amusing aside to the story because the actor began swearing vehemently in Italian at the crazy American who had shattered the big moment...