Word: eugenics
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Society's important political, moral and intellectual changes, according to U.C.L.A. Historian Eugen Weber, have always been brought about by that section of the population that was "most available." Sometimes it was the nobility, as in the curbing of absolute monarchy, sometimes the rich, as in the rise of mercantilism, sometimes the bourgeois intellectuals, as in the French Revolution. In recent times, Weber holds, the most available group for rebellion has been the young, with more time-and certainly more energy-than anyone else...
With that saving gesture to party unity, the rest of the malcontents fell into line. Both Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier and Bavarian Ally Franz Josef Strauss avoided overt criticism of Erhard's aloof Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder, whom they detest. Schroder acknowledged their forbearance with the acid observation that "after all, we are a party that must take extra care of its china...
Ninth, Bruckner's Eighth lasts nearly 80 minutes; but it is a ripe and rather naive product of the 19th century, whereas the Mahler is an intense breakout into the 20th. The Berlin Philharmonic, its brasses shining, is led by Eugen Jochum, a Bruckner devotee who conducts with warm involvement...
...PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOY, by Nicholas Henderson. A deft biography of the neglected French military genius who furthered the fortunes of the Hapsburgs after Louis XIV insulted the young man by telling him he was fit only for the priesthood...
...PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOY, by Nicholas Henderson. A polished biography of the Paris-born princeling who, after Louis XIV felt that he was too frail for military service, defected and left France to become the Habsburgs' top general and Louis' nemesis...