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David B. Axelrod at Lhotzky’s Literaturbuffet (1)
David visited Vienna from July 14th to 18th.
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Brains and Talent vs. Persistence
If I had half his brains,
I always thought I could
be somebody. And that one -
what talent! But my genius
friend never could fit in -
drinking, drinking until
he shrunk his brain
to ordinary and my
truly-gifted friend
couldn’t […]
Posted: July 31st, 2008 under Poetry, Aktuell, Videos.
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from The Eternal River
Poetry by Jozo T. Boskovski
Translated by
Herbert Kuhner,
David Axelrod et al
(Anna Esapora, Cynthia Keeson
and Svetlana Dimic)
Jozo T. Boskovski (1933 - 2008)
My friend Jozo has left us for the Universe.
I first met him when I attended the Struga Evenings Poetry Festival in 1972. I last saw him at that venue in 1982. We kept in touch […]
Posted: July 26th, 2008 under Text, Poetry, Translations.
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Skeptical About Che
Here’s jazz critic and libertarian Nat Hentoff confronting Che: “Years ago, at the Cuban mission to the United Nations, I asked the revolutionary Cuban icon Che Guevara, who professed not to understand English, ‘Can you conceive of any time in the future when there will be free elections in Cuba?’
“Not waiting for the translator, Guevara […]
Posted: July 24th, 2008 under Polemics, Aktuell, Political.
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McCain’s Jokes
“Question: Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Answer: Because her father is Janet Reno!”
Told by McCain at a Washington dinner in 1998,
Sherman Yellen, Huffington Post, Nov.,18.2006
“Did you hear the one about the woman
who is attacked on the street by a gorilla,
beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die?
When she finally regains consciousness and tries to […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2008 under Polemics, Aktuell, Political.
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You Can’t Expect a Leopard to Change Its Spots
Milivoj Asner is ranked No. 4 on a leading list of most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspects. He stands accused of persecuting hundreds of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies and dispatching them to their deaths in WWII-era Croatia, which was ruled by a Nazi puppet regime.
“He’s lived peacefully among us for years, and he should be able […]
Posted: July 20th, 2008 under Aktuell, Materialien, Political, Hypocrisy.
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Stephan Eibel Erzberg
Excerpts from Mixed Bag
Edited & Translated by Herbert Kuhner
Einleitung
Stephan Eibel ist einer der interessantesten und provokativsten gegenwärtigen österreichischen Autoren. Er hat sich als Romancier, Erzähler, Lyriker und Dramatiker ausgezeichnet. Seine literarische Arbeit glänzt mit Ironie, absurdem Witz und reflektiert eine paradoxe und verlogene mitteleuropäische Gesellschaft. Er hat sich klar und kompromißlos über politische und gesellschaftliche […]
Posted: July 18th, 2008 under Text, Aktuell.
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“Kronen-Zeitung” Retrospective
The Kronen-Zeitung is Austria’s largest circulation daily and the most widely read newspaper of any country in proportion to the population. Here are segments of articles from the journal, as well as letters to the editor.
Let the Dead Rest!
On January 30th, 1945 close to the end of World War II, The German liner Wilhelm […]
Posted: July 12th, 2008 under Polemics, Aktuell, Dossier, Political, Hypocrisy.
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