Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intellectual life in American universities is faced by a "comparatively new and sinister enemy," according to Isaish Berlin, former Harvard lecturer on philosophy and first secretary at Britain's Washington embassy during World...
This enemy, Berlin disclosed in a recent article in Time and Tide, British weekly, is the over-emphasis on social and economic miseries of our times. This gives a sense of guilt to the student or professor who wonders whether he is justified in absorbing himself in the study, "let us say, of the early Greek epic at Harvard while the poor of South Boston go hungry and unshed and Negroes are denied fundamental rights in the deep South...
Verein Turmwaechter will show a German-made movie, "Razzia," in the Fogg Large Room at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. tonight. The film is a fictionalized treatment of conditions in post-war Berlin...
...Razzia" (The Raid), made in 1947, marked the return of the German movie industry to the competitive American market. The story itself is based on documentary reports of black-market transactions in Berlin. Director Werner Klinger took his camera crew to the actual locale to shoot the picture...
...University's Goethe Bicentennial Celebration ends this week with two lectures at Fogg Museum. Edwin Redslob, Rector of the Free University of Berlin, will talk tonight at 8 p.m. on "Goethe and the Graphic Arts," and Karl Vietor, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, will discuss "Goothe's Concept of Life" in German, Thursday...