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The paper said in an editorial: "Any hope of some respite for the world from the brigade of 'trench-coats and snoopers,' especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, have been dashed.
Unfortunately, when the henequen bubble burst in the 1930s with the advent of synthetic fibers, the peninsula fell into an economic decline from which there seemed to be little hope of respite.
Southey's now no respite, neither by day nor night, Johnson's neither search nor labour are necessary, Chesterfield's others speak so fast and sputter that they are not to be fully understood neither--are all blunders.
No one claimed that teens were incapacitated by raging hormones or needed an eight-year respite to find themselves.
Grass' sarcasm is a welcome respite from the heavy-handed literalism of so much contemporary Holocaust narrative, from the 1979 television series Holocaust (another mass catalyst for German self-awareness) to Schindler's List to the odious Jakob the Liar . And yet, for all of Grass' rage at Germany's crimes, the fact that The Tin Drum rarely names those crimes or explores their existence, and seems so focused on the souls of the Germans, with little empathy to spare for their victims, makes the book feel more like a step on the way to something than like the thing itself--whether that thing be a more moral or simply a greater work of literature.