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  • It is grit to the delicately modulated story, set in the mid-1930's, of a restless air-spirit — a Luftmensch, as the Germans put it — and the wife and little daughter who live in the Luft's exhaust.

    The Elegant Variation: TEV 2006

  • It is grit to the delicately modulated story, set in the mid-1930's, of a restless air-spirit — a Luftmensch, as the Germans put it — and the wife and little daughter who live in the Luft's exhaust.

    MOHR REVIEW TEV 2006

  • Faulted as a troublemaker for so foolishly provoking Germany, Lemkin failed to win over even his own family, who regarded him as a Luftmensch and a hysteric.

    Getting Away With Murder: How We Let Genocide Happen 2002

  • Herr Nordau had some unresolved difficulties of his own — he had changed his name from Südfeld or 'Southern Field' to the more bracing and valiant-sounding 'Northern Meadow' — and he was the most militant deputy of Theodor Herzl in proposing a Zionist solution to the Luftmensch question; the nagging problem of the enfeebled and deracinated and feminized Jew.

    Lord Trouble Hitchens, Christopher 2000

  • Our reoccurring For Shame! feature kinda went the way of the Dodo after Luftmensch wrote about James Blunt (we're still not sure we've forgiven him either), but I think we need to revive it.

    Hot Artists at Elbo.ws 2009

  • As Luftmensch says below: no, Kerry has not been a leader on the gay marriage issue.

    Blue Mass. Group - Front Page 2008

  • As Luftmensch says below: no, Kerry has not been a leader on the gay marriage issue.

    Blue Mass. Group - Front Page 2008

  • Luftmensch Reporter Watches the Rockets at Lebanese Border

    Luftmensch Reporter Watches the Rockets at Lebanese Border 2006

  • Luftmensch Reporter Watches the Rockets at Lebanese Border | The New York Observer

    Luftmensch Reporter Watches the Rockets at Lebanese Border 2006

  • Luftmensch Reporter Watches the Rockets at Lebanese Border

    Luftmensch Reporter Watches the Rockets at Lebanese Border 2006

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