Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, intellect has betrayed Mathieu. "Enough! I'm through! I'm sick of being the wise guy, the guy who always sees straight! . . . If only I could have pressed my finger on the trigger, somewhere some German would have fallen...
After three days, Mathieu ends his life in action, holding out against the German advance in the church steeple of a small village. The fifteen-minute fight in the tower climaxes the development of the first three novels--but the series could not end with it. The rest of "Troubled Sleep" and a fourth novel still in preparation, "The Last Chance," is concerned with those who must live on, "Day after day . . . to gather in the rotten fruit of defeat...
...preceding Saturday the Crimson gridiron battalions had suffered a 46-0 rout at the hands of Army, a debacle so grave that solace could not be gained by writing it up, as Hitler's propagandists used to do with the German war reverses, as "a strategic retreat to prepared positions" or "an incredibly skillful disengagement from the enemy." This was 19 years...
...Overshadowing all issues in autumn German elections...
...surprise to all but a few of her friends. Some in the audience shouted "No! No!" German-born Lotte Lehmann, handsome, dignified, less than a fortnight away from her 63rd birthday, shook her head. "Don't argue with me. I started to sing in public in 1910. After 41 years of anxiety, nerves, strain and hard work, I think I deserve to take it easy. You know that the Marschallin [the aging heroine of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier] has always been one of my favorite parts. The Marschallin looks into her mirror and says...