Word: das
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk about Communism goes on and on; its moves and moods are subjects of intense scrutiny. But who talks about capitalism? The Communists (and a lot of Socialists) paint a distorted picture of capitalism as it was in 1867 when Marx published Das Kapital, and most anti-Communists answer with a theory of capitalism developed more than 150 years ago by Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations. The reason for this, says Adolph A. Berle Jr. in The Twentieth Century Capitalist Revolution (Harcourt, Brace; $3), is that "no adequate study of twentieth-century capitalism exists . . . No one, it seems...
...syntax will help the machine with idiomatic expressions. Literally translated, "Das gibt sich schon" (This will subside in time) would come out as "This gives itself already...
...favorite form, German lieder, and, from the time she first opened her mouth, never uttered an unpleasant sound. She ranged with practiced ease from a fragile, little-girl voice in such songs as Schubert's Die Vogel to big, dramatic tones in Hugo Wolf's Kennst Du das Land. She could soar high into the flute altitudes with the same rich quality that she used in her cello-like middle register. Before her program was half over, the audience was convinced; by the end, it was shouting its approval...
...their historical research, Boswell perfected the technique of biography, Carlyle studied the intricacies of the French Revolution (and complained of "my museum headache"). Young Charles Dickens came to study, Darwin to solidify his ideas for On the Origin of Species. Karl Marx gathered the wool which went into Das Kapital, most of which he wrote in the great, quiet, dome-capped Reading Room...
...basic nature and long-range goals of the enemy can usually be determined from public sources, e.g., Mein Kampf, Das Kapital, the writings of Stalin. This kind of information is easy to get, not always easy to understand. Along with it, a nation will seek to know the enemy's specific strength (capabilities) and his probable course of action in specific circumstances (intentions). These specifics hostile nations usually try to conceal from each other. They must be ferreted out by "intelligence." The best definition of intelligence in the military-political sense is: "information which is hard...