Word: bebel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...miserable homes of workers in Imperial Germany typically had one feature in common--a portrait of August Bebel, the leader of the German Social Democratic Party. The ghetto apartments of black people in America today share a similar feature--scotch-taped on the crumbling walls are three photos: John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King -- and Robert Kennedy...
Never Doubled. All France calls him Bebel (pronounced Ray-bell), and the French press has recorded that his nose was broken in the prize ring. "I let this story go through because it has added to my legend," he confesses. His nose was actually disassembled in a fight in high school. But if such embellishments exist here and there, the private Belmondo still rides point to the legend. He does box, but only as an amateur. He is indeed a fearless, reckless fellow...
Much Experience. Bebel was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a fairly expensive Paris suburb, but he grew up on the Left Bank, and his colloquial language could have been swept up off the cobblestones of St.-Germain-des-Pres and Montparnasse. His father was a sculptor who taught at the Academic des Beaux-Arts...
...that he appears to be the sort of actor who was discovered rather than trained, he had ten years of experience behind him by the time he made Breathless. Most of it he acquired at the Conservatoire, the French equivalent of Britain's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Bebel got experience of all kinds there. "In spite of my mug, it would be stupid to deny that I've always had a certain success with girls," he says...
Founded in 1869 by a Prussian (August Bebel) and a Hessian pacifist (Wilhelm Liebknecht), the SPD is still doctrinally Marxist, making much ado about dialectics, red flags and the greeting "comrade." The Socialists say they are pro-Western, but they oppose German membership in the West European Union; they are stoutly antiCommunist, yet they line up on Moscow's side in its fight against the Paris accords. At a time when West Germany, and most, though not all, of its workers are enjoying unprecedented prosperity, the SPD still tends to couch its cries for social justice in obsolete Marxist...