Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people see that McCarthyism can snowball until Joe becomes Adolf and our right to dissent is lost...
...Virtue is its own reward, and it is exceedingly poor taste to praise one's self or to say with the Pharisee, "Thanks, Oh Lord, for not having made me as sinful as that publican." However, Adolf A. Perle's letter [TIME, Sept. 17] will be seen by thousands who, not having lived in the States, might be led to believe that we are a nation of morons...
Died. Fritz Busch, 61, conductor at the Metropolitan Opera (1945-51) and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company; of a heart attack; in London. Member of a notable musical family (brother Adolf became a famed violinist and cofounder, with brother Hermann, of the first-rate Busch String Quartet), he played the piano at four, conducted at 19. As conductor of the Dresden Opera he spoke out boldly against state-controlled art ("I am a man, I hope, of a little bit of temperament, so I told everyone frankly what I thought about the Nazis"), left Germany in 1933 after Storm Troopers...
...Cleveland (where I live) seem rude, insolent and very vague about what is right or wrong. This includes seemingly trivial things: shouting at people walking by, rude jokes about girls, exaggerated "sex-interest," exaggerated "money-consciousness," and disinterest in anything worthier than crime novels, gangster films and certain magazines . . . ADOLF A. PERLES Cleveland...
Near Bordentown, NJ. the 476-ft. Grille, once proud pleasure yacht of Adolf Hitler, later bought by Textile Millionaire George Arida, went under the torches of a salvage crew, to be cut up and sent to the national defense scrap pile...