Word: ernstli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the Far East, 19th century Christian missionaries tried to win the heathen with the hymn-huffing harmonium. Now from West German Protestant Theologian Ernst Benz comes an attack on the meek little organ as an instrument of "tyranny and dictatorship" that smothers rather than kindles the spread of Christian music in Asia. Some rebellious young Americans are using the phonograph, Dr. Benz reports, but this "increases the dangerous identification of Christian religion with Western technology." The real need is encouragement of native musicians using native instruments to perform the finest Christian music in their own way. "Freedom fighters must...
Starting with its next issue, the Freshman Yardling will include a four-page literary supplement entitled the "Unicorn," which will include both prose and poetry. Co-editor John L. Ernst '62 described the purpose of the "Unicorn" as an "attempt to provide an outlet for the really good freshman writers who otherwise could not publish their work...
Like the late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuther in the days of the 1949 airlift, Socialist Willy Brandt had come to tighten that mutual reliance between Americans and Berliners. His method, beyond talks with President Eisenhower and other Washington brass: a Meet the Press TV appearance, a banquet hosted by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, luncheons with New York businessmen, press conference and dinner in Los Angeles (whence he flies on around the world). In the growing tradition of nondiplomat diplomacy, Mayor Brandt came not at the invitation of the U.S. Government but to be feature speaker this week...
...Western allies will master the situation." And then these two men, in accord on the big issues, went their separate politicking ways. Adenauer was careful to criticize West German Socialists like Ollenhauer, but not Socialist Brandt. And Brandt did not bother to campaign against his Christian Democratic opponent, Ernst Lemmer, a member of Adenauer's Cabinet...
...trials as a newspaperman, moved on to Berlin as press attache of the Norwegian military mission. Surveying divided Berlin, he decided: "It is better to be the only democrat in Germany, where democracy is unknown, than one of many in Norway, where everybody understands it." The late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuter took Brandt under his wing. Soon Brandt, regaining his German citizenship, became a member of the West German Bundestag (Lower House) in Bonn, president of the West Berlin house of representatives (city parliament), and last year West Berlin's mayor. In 1956, after other leaders had failed, Brandt...