Word: ernst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long series of questionable cancer "cures," all of which are susceptible to exploitation. Since conventional medicine concedes that it has no sure cure for many types of cancer, those condemned to die from the disease are understandably willing to try anything. Laetrile was developed in 1950 by Ernst T. Krebs Jr., a biochemist who studied at but did not graduate from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. Krebs claimed that Laetrile, which he labeled vitamin B17, can prevent all cancers by alleviating the nutritional deficiency that he is convinced causes the disease. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, however, disagreed...
...Government; James R. Higntower, professor of Chinese Literature; Albert O. ??man, ??der Professor of Political Economy; Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government; Waiter Kaiser, professor of Comparative Literature and English; Harry P. Kerr, professor of Public Speaking; Martin Kilson, professor of Government; Davia C. Kmsey, assistant professor of Education; Ernst Kitzinger, Porter University Professor; Klaus-Friedrich Koch, assistant professor of Social Anthropology; Rustam Z. Kothavala, director, Harvard Science Center, lecturer on Geology; Harry Levin, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature; Maynard Mack Jr., assistant professor of English; David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology...
...Joseph Cornell to Robert Rauschenberg, is in some degree indebted to him. His concept of the "all-enveloping" work of art that could draw on a whole range of media, from paint and sculpture to architecture, sound and print, hovers behind all recent experiments in mixed media. Like Max Ernst, Schwitters is the "classical" Dadaist who destroyed nothing and became instead a kind of stylistic oracle. There have been a number of Schwitters retrospectives to cement the fame Schwitters himself never lived to enjoy. The latest, perhaps the definitive one, is now on view at the Kunsthalle...
Born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, the illegitimate son of a Liibeck shopgirl, he was raised by his grandfather to be a fervent blue-collar socialist. In 1933, to escape arrest by the Gestapo, he changed his name to Willy Brandt and fled to Scandinavia. In Norway and Sweden, his doctrinaire socialism was mellowed by experience of the more pragmatic Scandinavian brand...
...aide to Berlin's Governing Mayor Ernst Reuter, Brandt served in the front lines of the cold war. He was married on the eve of the blockade, and his first son was born by candlelight before the Russians caved in and reopened the city's land and water links. During the long struggle for Berlin. Brandt learned that there was no substitute for U.S. power in facing down the Russian bear. "Nowadays bridges are not built, but blown up," he said then. "It will be up to a later time to re-establish honest connections between the Eastern and Western...