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you have every right to suspect the composer

I've already admitted the validity of such an argument: the failure of an experiment doesn't necessarily disprove its premises. You don't have to doubt Mozart because Igor Oistrakh plays him badly. But when every virtuoso makes the same piece sound bad, you have every right to suspect the composer.…

—p.77 The German Comedy: Scenes of Life After the Wall Some People Can Even Sleep Through an Earthquake (66) by Peter Schneider
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West German leftists

West German leftists spared themselves the shock that French intellectuals felt on reading Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago; instead, they put their energies into an angry critique of French shortsightedness. They themselves, however, never really abandoned the discretion they had long practiced …

—p.72 Some People Can Even Sleep Through an Earthquake (66) by Peter Schneider
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do away with the existing borders

[...] And in Upper Silesia? Are revanchist elements still active there? At this, the pastor shakes his head and prefers not to commit himself. "In a new Europe," he says cautiously, letting his gaze rise to met the distant future, "we will have to do away with the existing borders through economic …

—p.58 Sentimental Germany (42) by Peter Schneider
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arrived in West Berlin just before November 9

[...] The couple owned a lake house in Berlin-Friedrichshagen, as well as a sailboat and even a surfboard; they owed their prosperity to a private glassworks. The two had waited years to be allowed to emigrate, and had finally arrived in West Berlin just before November 9. [...] it was all for noth…

—p.47 Sentimental Germany (42) by Peter Schneider
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another form of Aryanism

The Poles are pushed to such degrading convolutions as a result of the German immigration regulations [...] the Pole who presents his father's or his grandfather's National Socialist German Worker's Party card acquires all the privileges of a German citizen, while a compatriot whose father or grand…

—p.45 Sentimental Germany (42) by Peter Schneider