Word: echt
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...Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. But it is known she had tried to transfer to a Swiss convent. After her arrest she asked the convent to send her two suitcases of clothes; that indicated ignorance of her fate, according to Sister Marie Louise, a former prioress at Echt. Agrees Pinchas Lapide, a Frankfurt Jewish scholar: "Her death was totally involuntary." Although "in her own mind Edith Stein most probably died for her faith," says Renee Grignon, an official of the French Jewish-Christian Friendship Association, "in reality, she died because of her origins." She acknowledged her Jewishness when...
...Gestapo came for Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross at the Carmelite convent in Echt, the Netherlands, on Aug. 2, 1942. She and her older sister Rosa, who was living at the convent, were given five minutes to pack. Within a week the two women were at the gates of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. They died in the gas chamber on Aug. 9. In words that today ring with heroism, Sister Teresa told Rosa in Echt, "Come. We are going for our people." In those words rest the very paradox of Sister Teresa: Were her people Jews...
...ascetic who rose early, wore patched linen clothes and knelt through three Masses a day. In 1934, after the Nazis banned Jews from academic posts, Edith Stein entered the Carmelite convent in Cologne. By 1938, with the Jewish pogroms in full sway, the order sent her to Echt...
...opera, the most passionate and passionately debated musical form, the myth of the golden age remains potent. If opera is primarily about singing-sheer, glorious vocalism over all other elements-then these may be parlous times. Where today is a real Aida on the order of Emmy Destinn, an echt Siegfried like Lauritz Melchior or a true Norma such as Rosa Ponselle? In the Arcadian past, there were giants on the earth. How can contemporary opera possibly compete with its starry past...
When the commitment to rock faded, however, Elvis romped in the Hills of Beverly. Like much of Presley's life, this ordinary greed offends Goldman. It is "What makes him so ... echt Amerikan...