Word: defier
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...asked West Germans to sing the far less nationalistic third stanza, which calls simply for "unity, justice and freedom for the German Fatherland." Nowadays that request is being defiantly ignored in West Germany by a new German political party whose meetings and rallies ring with the first stanza. The defier is the National Democratic Party, and it unashamedly calls for a dramatic reassertion of German pride...
...Superman had its inception, says its author with a perfectly straight face, in a suggestion by the critic A. B. Walkley that Shaw write a play about Don Juan. The old story of the Spanish libertine and defier of God had for Shaw two aspects, the sexual and the philosophical. These produced, or at least informed, respectively, the play and the dream-scene within it, which together justify the subtitle of Man and Superman, "a Comedy and a Philosophy." (This is not to say, of course, that the main play lacks philosophy or the interlude lacks comedy. Shaw's peculiar...
WITH Ben-Gurion preparing to withdraw from Egyptian soil, the world's eyes swung to another defier of U.N. resolutions, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose country since 1951 has ignored a U.N. resolution to let Israeli ships through the Suez Canal. Would Nasser now agree to final clearance of the canal and negotiate an acceptable contract for its operation? Gamal Abdel Nasser is a man who once aroused universal admiration, then widespread concern. His brief career has now reached a fateful turning. For a new estimate of the 39-year-old dictator of the Nile, see FOREIGN...
...Francisco, Major General William F. Dean, 55, Medal of Honor winner for his bravery in Korea and staunch defier of brainwashing through almost three years as the Communists' top-ranking prisoner of war, confirmed reports that he had asked for retirement. Now deputy commander of the Sixth Army, Dean, still feeling the effects of his solitary imprisonment, plans to leave the Army at the end of October...
...story, the slangy prose he had often substituted for austere poetry, the modern flourishes (card playing, automobiles) and modern dress. They gave a mild fillip to a classic story, but they did not make for an effective play. This Antigone, barring its one big clash between despot and defier, was flat, fumbly theater. This Antigone, shorn of her Resistance aura, was unmoving and unreal. And in a modernish setting, the burial issue on which the plot hinges seemed outlandishly bizarre...