Word: echt
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...scene production, shunning traditional grandiosities, keeps largely to a simple platform stage, at times with no more props than a bench and a tree, and often vivid expressionist lighting. The production suffers, however, from a total lack of style, from seeming solidly, even a little clumpingly, echt Deutsch. It may not seem too German for those who know German; for those who do not, Faust is more rewarding in Marlowe's play, or Berlioz' or Gounod's or even Boito's music. But, if not exactly something to see, as a great classic...
Pogroms broke out in Germany in November 1938, and association with Jews became a real risk. The prioress of Cologne, who had an entire community to consider, reluctantly sent Sister Benedicta to the order's Dutch convent at Echt. There on Passion Sunday, a few months after her flight from Cologne, Sister Benedicta, with a sense of premonition, received permission from her prioress to offer herself spiritually as a "sacrifice of expiation for true peace: that the reign of Antichrist may perish...
...Sister Benedicta's fellow religious at Echt soon received a brief message: "Greetings from my journey to Poland. Sister Benedicta." On Aug. 9, 1942 Edith Stein and her sister Rosa died in the gas chamber at Auschwitz...
...Papal Nuncio and Dean of the corps diplomatique, began: ''Monsieur le President," and went on in French to extend the Corps' welcome, voicing a hope that the President would guide Germany to prosperity and along the paths of peace. The President began: "Exzellenz," and in Echt Deutsch continued : "I shall exert all of my powers to contribute with earnestness conscientiousness and complete devotion to the solution of the problems of our day and generation...