Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Adolf Scharf, 74, President of Austria since 1957, a Viennese Socialist who, as vice chancellor during the postwar years, shares credit with the late Chancellor Julius Raab for Austria's economic recovery and the 1955 departure of Russian occupation troops, later, as President, quelled a series of rebellions within his Socialist party, thus keeping alive the government's 19-year-old Socialist-Conservative coalition; of liver cancer; in Vienna...
...German Jewish renaissance that produced such men as Freud, Einstein, Kafka and Martin Buber. Born in Prussia, he studied philosophy at the University of Berlin, and as a rabbi in Silesia, Dusseldorf and Berlin emerged as one of Germany's great articulators of Reform Judaism. When Protestant Theologian Adolf von Harnack declared Judaism to be a spiritually inferior faith in his The Essence of Christianity, Baeck replied with The Essence of Judaism. Baeck defended Judaism as a classical religion, and argued that Christianity became romantic and sentimental when it departed from its Hebraic origins. But he acknowledged the importance...
...Adolf Hitler was a frustrated painter, but he and his Nazi crony Goering compensated by collecting art. At last the West German government has figured out what to do with the remainder of their vast personal collections, which for the past 20 years have festered unseen in the dark basement of a classicistic pile in Munich designed fittingly by Hitler himself...
Without Miss Allen, however, production would have been a bit flat, for Temin and Goldstein never build to any very intense moment. But as soon as Tekla enters, everything becomes clear: Adolf's anguish, Gustav's talk about guilt...
Married. Princess Margaretha, 29, granddaughter of Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf; and John Kenneth Ambler, 40, well-to-do British commoner; in a Lutheran ceremony witnessed by 7,000,-000 Swedes on TV; on Oland Island, Sweden (see THE WORLD...