Word: correct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaction is often uneasiness. Says West Berliner Eva Becker, 76: "That was how Hitler was. He was black magic, and intoxicated people. We thought of him only as a dynamic leader who got the nation on its feet again and solved the awful unemployment problem." Fest aims to correct the ignorance that one generation has forced upon its successor, so that a second Hitler cannot rise to power-and for most viewers, he succeeds. Says he: "If you want to make a society a little more secure against someone like Hitler, then you must give people an understanding...
...Certamen-a classical version of the College Bowl quiz -with state teams battling it out onstage over the lingua mater. "What case is required for the object of vescorl" shot out Questioner James Minter, 25, a candidate at Columbia University for a Ph.D. in classics. Flashing lights signaled the correct answer: "The ablative." Sample sticklers: "What Italian myth figure changed into a woodpecker?" "What Latin emperor was transformed, in a satire, into a pumpkin?" Answers: Picus and Claudius...
...correct translation of chai on Rod Carew's chain is "life" and not, as you stated, "health." The word is made up of the Hebrew letters chet and yud, which together form the word chai- life. But then again, if one has health, one has life...
...most wistful summaries, as always, come from noncombatants. Columnist Marquis Childs remembers telling himself after Pearl Harbor. "Nothing will ever be the same again." And, of course, it was not. An army wife was perfectly correct when she called World War II "a very broadening experience." Both for better and for worse, as Melville Grosvenor concludes, "It made a country...
...ancients get the idea for their epochal invention? A University of Texas archaeologist may have at last provided the answer. Denise Schmandt-Besserat has found evidence that writing evolved from a much older record-keeping system that is still used in the Middle East. If her theory is correct, it pushes the roots of writing back at least 5,000 years...