Saturday, March 23, 2024
A Useful German Word
Clive James (1939-2019), "Marcel Reich-Ranicki," Cultural Amnesia (2007; rpt. London: Picador, 2012), pp. 591-599 (at 597):
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In a culture where the sublime has always seductively beckoned, his has been a useful corrective emphasis: a shift of direction towards talking turkey and away from Mumpitz, that useful German word for exalted twaddle.
