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Article: Pain in the grass: Nobel committee honors aging German radical.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 6, 1999
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The Nobel Prize literary committee has done it again. With unswerving certitude, the committee has awarded its annual $1 million prize to an author of impeccable left-wing and anti-Western credentials. German author Gunter Grass is, like the previous German Nobel literature prize winner Heinrich Boell, someone who cannot find enough bad things to say about his own country or about the United States. In the year of the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it makes perfect sense to pick someone whose attitudes towards that historical event have ranged from bitterness to ambivalence and back again, right? We have come to expect nothing less from the Swedish ...
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