Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory of the unasked question is a myth that many German politicians desperately cling to. At Geneva the West had forced Molotov to admit plainly again and again, that whether or not West Germany is in NATO, Russia would never consent to free elections, which would allow West Germany to "swallow up" Communist East Germany. Already Molotov's admission had forced a new line in East Germany itself: free elections is a dirty term; after all, free elections had not prevented the emergence of Hitler. Wrote the party organ Neues Deutschland: "The lessons taught the German people...
...Geneva the West had "made the cause of reunification their own." But Socialists and members of the FDP, even some of Adenauer's own Christian Democrats, raised the familiar complaint, dating from the Berlin Conference, that the West had never asked the Russians the crucial question: Would they allow reunification if West Germany got out of NATO...
...departments of France. If the alliance as a whole wins a majority in the department, it takes all the seats. The seats are then divided proportionally among the victorious group. Since nobody in 1951 was apt to ally with either the Communists or the Gaullists, this method allowed the center parties to unite as friends long enough to win all the seats in the department, then as rivals to whack up the spoils. Basically, it is unfair, and most Deputies admit it. Still in effect, it was the only one with a chance of approval in time to allow Faure...
...Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Nathan Milstein, Isaac Stern and (of Russian parents) Yehudi Menuhin. This week, for the first time, U.S. audiences had a chance to compare Oistrakh in person with the other violin masters. For, during Geneva's temporary thaw in the cold war, Moscow had decided to allow its most famous musical performer to come...
...takes him to fall from the fourth story to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works." Delacroix's aim, as his friend French Poet Charles Baudelaire put it more precisely, was "to execute quickly enough and with sufficient sureness so as not to allow any element in the intensity of an act or idea to be lost." To this end Delacroix worked continually to perfect his drawing, at his death left behind him no less than 11,000 pastels, watercolors and sketches. A selection of these, on view this week at Harvard's Fogg...