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From: The Nation
Date: 19950717
Author:Leonard, John

About the way the tabloids of his time reported the murder of a prostitute by a carpenter, Robert Musil told us in The Man Without Qualities: "They had expressed their abhorrence of it, but they did not leave off until they had counted thirty-five stabs in the abdomen and described the long slash from the navel to the sacrum ... while the throat showed the marks of throttling." Musil, of course, was feeling bad about Vienna on the eve of World War I. Maria Tatar feels even worse about Weimar, after that war was lost, when everybody seemed to have tabloid tendencies. They were more ...

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