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2002-12-30 Fifth Column

German Nobel Laureate: Bush ''Threat to World Peace''

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-12-30 10:35 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What is it with the nobel prize? (gunter grass: literature 1999)During the 1990's Gunter Grass opposed the reunification of germany and considered it equal to the nazi annexation of austria.

Do you have to have brain damage to get a nobel prize, or do you get brain damage when you get a nobel prize?

Posted by Frank Martin 2002-12-30 12:12:08|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2002-12-30 12:12:08|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the brain damage is a prerequisite for getting on the committee.

Posted by Fred 2002-12-30 12:29:57|| 2002-12-30 12:29:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Not sure about the brain damage, but to win the Nobel in Literature you have to write a book that almost no one execept those in the "intellectual community" would have any interest in reading.

Posted by tu3031 2002-12-30 12:53:51|| 2002-12-30 12:53:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Grass is one of the first German authors to come to grips with the Nazi past. Good...
Grass is also one of the run of the mill German intelligenti who could tell the difference between a Nazi and a Communist street thug in the context of the political violence of the 1920's -30's. Bad...

But on the scale of the Nobel committee, the Good outweighs the Bad. However, it's rare when contemporary literary criticism is confirmed by posthumous acclaim.

Posted by Tom Roberts 2002-12-30 20:51:28|| 2002-12-30 20:51:28|| Front Page Top

#5 oops... "could tell" -> "could not tell"

Posted by Tom Roberts 2002-12-30 20:52:45|| 2002-12-30 20:52:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Look, its simple. They are all Europeans. They love to invade or be invaded. They love to colonize and critize others who do the same thing. They are weak in spirit. Overly taxed, nannied, and patronized. And I am not referring to the winners but the committees.

Posted by Jack 2002-12-31 06:45:55|| 2002-12-31 06:45:55|| Front Page Top

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