Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart ailment, the composer felt a heightened awareness of worldly joys and beauties, and a piercing melancholy over losing them. He took six verses by Li T'ai-Po and other Chinese poets as texts for tenor, contralto and orchestra, and wrote his farewell in Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), his most personal and by all odds his best work. Scored in a rich, late-romantic idiom, its bursts of sweetness are coated with vinegar, its drawn-out lines of resignation elevated by a faith in the enduring human spirit...
...went on to form the Common Market in 1958 and became Europe's best hope of unity. In 1955, he won for Germany a place in NATO and thus further links to the Western community of nations. Like John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State at the time, der Alte saw Communism as an implacable threat to his Christian conception of Western civilization. Dulles and Adenauer became fast friends. As with no other American diplomat, Adenauer felt that Dulles always told Bonn the truth. Dulles was, in fact, the statesman der Alte most admired be cause "he thought clearly...
...Latter Mistrust. It was not done out of admiration for De Gaulle, whose narrow nationalism der Alte found an emotional atavism. Rather, in the absence of genuine European unity, Adenauer fell back on the keystone relationship of France and Germany for the well-being of Europe. And he kept right on working for the larger goal of a united Europe after his retirement as Chancellor. In the last month of his life, before he came down fatally with flu and bronchitis, Adenauer met with Chancellor Kiesinger and "urgently impressed on me," said Kiesinger, "this great concern of his life...
...recent years, der Alte came to mistrust American policy around the world. He wanted the U.S. to withdraw from Viet Nam, believing that it was diluting Washington's interest in Bonn and Europe. Every fresh move toward détente with Russia added to his unease about the course of Atlantic affairs. Much of his unseemly sniping at his successor, Ludwig Erhard, stemmed from his worry that Erhard was too uncritically-and undemandingly-pro-American...
Toward new Chancellor Kiesinger, Adenauer was more kindly disposed. Kiesinger moved to tighten ties with France and, in Adenauer's view, acted a little more aloof from Washington. These were policies that followed der Alte's own counsel; trust in the wisdom of others was never one of Adenauer's virtues. That the changing nature of Communism in Europe, and of Europe itself, might be outrunning his own concept of Realpolitik did not seem to have occurred to him. But then, it hardly mattered. Adenauer's certainty of purpose at a time when Germany most needed...