Word: fermentations
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...should attentively watch Austrian political developments and sustain close diplomatic ties so that, in the case that Haider ever tries to subvert democracy in the name of fascist governance, the E.U. still has political leverage with the Austrian government. Isolating Austria will only allow hatred and xenophobia to ferment and diminish the chances of diplomatically forestalling political crisis should the Austrian government ever actually turn to undemocratic practices...
William was crowned that Christmas morning. Had he merely conquered, England would still have been pulled from its semi-Scandinavian orbit and into the ferment of Western Europe, and English would still have been transformed into a different language, one with words that came by way of France, words like different and language...
...special privilege to lead the Board at this time of increased intellectual ferment at Harvard. New facilities in both the humanities and the sciences, substantially increased collaboration across schools and departments, and pervasive changes in technology are spurring the imaginations of our faculty and students as never before," she said...
...special privilege to lead the Board atthis time of increased intellectual ferment atHarvard. New facilities in both the humanities andthe sciences, substantially increasedcollaboration across schools and departments, andpervasive changes in technology are spurring theimaginations of our faculty and students as neverbefore," she said...
...divine decadence of Weimar Berlin! Brecht and Weill making acerbic music; Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau creating film metaphors for Germany in chaos; famous artists like Grosz and Ernst--and a failed painter named Hitler. It was all so exciting, also grim. But amid the ferment, a buoyant sound could be heard: the impish artistry of the Comedian Harmonists. From 1928 until it was banned and disbanded by the Nazis in 1934, this male sextet brought smiles to Berliners in the political and economic dumps. One could almost believe the sentiment behind its hit tune Wochenend und Sonnenschein: Happy days...