Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Der Dicke" faces a similar problem in a more domestic area, that of social security. German wages have sky-rocketed in the past few years, and a good part of the increases have been due to the benefits received by every German laborer and low-income white collar employee. Welfare payments comprise about 20 per cent of the German national income; in the United States, they are only 6 per cent. The worker is so pampered, in fact, that the Socialists began looking for other issues long...
...someone to wipe his nose on!" More recently Mussolini, who frowned on the custom in any form, tried to discourage il baciamano. He might as well have tried to suppress spaghetti. The Nazis also deplored the Handkuss- good Germans were meant to give the Hitler salute instead-but der Führer himself was often photographed with his forelock fanning some actress...
...drama is called Der Stellvertreter, a title that has been translated as The Representative or The Deputy, hut is perhaps best rendered as The Vicar-in echo of the title Vicar of Christ on Earth, which is one of the official designations of Roman Catholic Popes. The first play of Germany's Rolf Hochhuth, 32, it ran for five months last season in West Berlin's Free People's Theater, is now showing in Stockholm, Basel and at London's Royal Shakespeare Theater...
Everywhere, Der Stellvertreter has caused a storm of comment and quarrel. For in it, Hochhuth argues that Pope Pius XII refused to condemn openly the Nazi murder of European Jews because he saw Hitler as a necessary barrier between Soviet Communism and the Christian West, and hoped to negotiate a cease-fire between Germany and the Western Allies. Hochhuth believes that the Pope, as the Supreme Pontiff of the world's most powerful Christian church, was the only man whose formal protest might have deterred Hitler. But the Pope was silent, and in a 45-page historical appendix...
Silence & Courage. Hochhuth's answer is that calculated prudence is appropriate for a diplomat, but not for a man with the awesome responsibility of being Christ's earthly representative. In Der Stellvertreter, Hochhuth contrasts papal silence with the action of Denmark's King Christian, who helped forestall Nazi persecution by vowing to wear the Star of David if his country's Jews had to, and with Munster's Bishop Clemens August von Galen, whose fiery sermons ended the Nazi euthanasia campaign in his city...