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...FRANZ KAFKA: THE COMPLETE STORIES; Schocken; 486 pages...
Taylor's book is a parade of names, from Walter Gropius to Franz Werfel, two men who not only shared the same fate but the same wife, Alma. The anecdotes are diverting, and the history is brisk and precise. But Taylor's work lacks the tragic dimension of Heilbut's book. The difference is evident in the titles. It is one thing to be a stranger and quite another to be an exile, forced from a country, a tradition and a language, to become, in Einstein's phrase, "a bird of passage for . . . life...
...curb or hit a pothole, and you don't even feel it," boasts Broderick. "It's like a Cadillac. It's the most expensive thing I ever bought, and I did it on the spur of the moment. I asked Elizabeth Franz, who plays my mother in the play, if I should buy it, and she said: 'Why not?' I really love it. It's built to last forever. Look! It's even got the name of the designer [Tim Neenan] on it, like designer jeans...
...forger or forgers had unknowingly perpetuated minor errors that historians had found in the Domarus book. The crowd at a Hitler rally in Breslau was put at half a million, for instance, whereas more reliable non-Domarus reports had estimated 130,000. Both the diaries and Domarus had General Franz Ritter Von Epp congratulating Hitler in 1937 on his 50th anniversary in army service, when the dictator was only 48 years old; the Führer had actually praised Von Epp for his 50 years in the Army. Said Booms sarcastically about the Hitler portrayed in the diaries...
...cases a couple of weeks, before permitting the customer to use his own money. During that time, the bank invests the money and earns interest, a strategy known as "playing the float." In essence, the customer often unwittingly gives the bank a free loan. Says New York State Senator Franz Leichter: "I think it's the biggest consumer scam going on in America today...