Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build the new German army, Blank has picked two generals who fought hard and well against the Allies...
Last week, confronted with an enemy who had already recruited a German army of his own, and encouraged, though with some misgivings, by the Western Allies, West Germany took the first steps to raise a new Wehrmacht. It tell to a sober, pale German official named Theodor Blank to broadcast the details of a new 300,000-to 400,000-man German military machine with...
...anonymous as his name, Blank has been working over his blueprint for more than a year. No military man himself (he was a conscript in World War II), Blank is a trade union official, a wheel horse in Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party. He declares himself opposed to reviving a German military caste, but willing to assemble an army which will exist only inside the six-nation European Army. On this point, most Westerners accept his and Adenauer's sincerity...
Today, Ibsen-dotting every i, megaphoning every idea-seems most merciless toward his audience. And the current production is not only didactic, but thoroughly inept. Maurice Evans, for example, portrays Hialmar so broadly that he might be playing Micawber, so stagily that he might be spouting blank verse...
...with the pistol was an engineer, demonstrating with blank shells what London churchgoers have known for generations-that St. Paul's acoustics are abominable. Sir Christopher Wren's imposing structure, completed in 1710, has never been right for psalms or sermons. Fine phrases bounce off the high stone walls, sound in some spots like garbled incomprehensible Latin. "Acoustically, St. Paul's is the worst cathedral in Europe," admits the Archdeacon of London, the Venerable O. H. Gibbs-Smith. "Except, of course, St. Peter's in Rome...