Word: basically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aware of totalitarian tendencies still alive in Germany, the Bonn Conference also laid the groundwork for outlawing the Communists or any neo-Nazi group. The constitution provides that political parties may be ruled unconstitutional if they attempt to abolish "the free and democratic basic order...
...constitution repeatedly calls for the unity of all Germany. The drafters call it not a constitution but a "basic law"; it may be superseded by any permanent all-German "constitution adopted in a free decision by the German people...
...leads when one has the means for total leisure is a very destructive life. Leisure is a thing that normally takes place once a week in most people's lives, on Sunday . . . For the writer to forget the problems of work and leisure is to forget the basic patterns of people's lives...
...basic philosophy characterizing Munch's approach to the orchestra is that every musician is talented and a master of his instrument. Otherwise he would not be a member of the orchestra, Munch reasons. Consequently he seldom corrects individuals in rehearsals, and though he is careful of details, he does not pick out one particular player for picayune criticism. Only when he strongly disagrees with a man's particular interpretation will he stop a rehearsal to correct him. Thus, although he spends as much time in rehearsal as other conductors, less of this time is spent in repetition of short phrases...
...sizes up the job the U.S. has done in Japan, he talks about a "milestone in the march of man." To spectators with less sweeping vision, this estimate seemed premature. But many would agree that, in Japan, the U.S. and MacArthur have acquitted themselves creditably in spite of the basic mistakes made in the first phase of the occupation. They were the mistakes of righteous anger and of unfamiliarity with the enormous problem of dealing with a conquered enemy, and in as far as they can be, they are on the way to being redressed...