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...welfare work, and the conditions are indeed appalling. But the inhabitants are in most cases not Germans. They are ethnic Germans, Volksdeutsch, expellees from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, etc. Loyal to Germany during the war, they have been repaid for this loyalty by being herded into bunkers and lagers in filth and misery...
...Passionate English. The Book of Costume also clearly documents how greatly the distinctive characteristics of nations change with the centuries. Fifteenth Century Italians were clean, reserved, austere: they were shocked by the filth of the Germans. Erasmus was bowled over by the vulgar English tendency to display passion and emotion in public. On the other hand, while skirts rise and fall and puffed knee breeches slowly work their way into peg-top trousers, many surprising similarities exist between far-separated cultures. The woman in the Greek wedding procession, bowling along in her chariot, might almost be on the way back...
Hyenas & Jackals. Like the International Congress of Philosophy (TIME, Aug. 30), the intellectuals divided on the East-West issue. Alexander Fadeev, head sheep dog of the Russian writing pack, called Western culture "disgusting filth" and denounced T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passes and André Malraux. "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens," said Fadeev, "they would write such things...
Only a few days before, President-elect Gonzalez had suavely assured newsmen that not more than a few political prisoners were still behind bars. Lola showed me documents proving that more than 1,200 still rot in the filth of Paraguay's jails. If I wanted to see for myself, Lola said, she could arrange to slip me into the Asuncion jail as a visitor...
Caldwell was especially good at mimicking Southern folk rhetoric, its mixture of lecherous filth and vivid images drawn from rural life, its passages of whining literalness relieved by sudden bright patches of corrupt folk poetry. His ability at recording poor white and Negro speech was, in fact, greater than his ability to make creative use of it in the framework of a novel, which is why his best pieces read more advantageously as off-center anecdotes than as realistic narratives...