Word: feste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market price would be ($2.75 to $3.25). Byrd won the approval of Abourezk and Metzenbaum for the Jackson compromise. But the Senators who favor decontrol refused to go along. To block the compromise -and prevent a move to freeze prices at the current ceiling-they began their own talk fest. Said Louisiana Democrat Russell Long: "A filibuster is an act of piracy. So if there's going to be a filibuster, I'm going to be a pirate too.* With that, he began calling up for votes the remainder of Abourezk's 508 amendments...
...film marks the crest of the "Hitler wave," which began in the early 1970s with a flood of books on the Reichskanzler and his era. Producer Joachim Fest, co-publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and author of Hitler, a massive 1973 biography, drew on film clips of the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Using his book's conclusions as a base, Fest set out to make a movie that would explore how an obscure Austrian postcard artist could win power and put it to such evil purposes. As the newspaper Die Welt noted in its review...
...others suggest that Janssen may be selling the masses short. Fest's footage of Nazi atrocities and the wholesale destruction of German cities during the war never fails to stun audiences, even those Germans who have been immersed in an atmosphere of guilt for 30 years. Scenes of adulation by massive crowds, weeping women and adoring children often evoke nervous titters. But the film's emphasis on the manner of Hitler's rise to power is intended to explain just how he managed to lead Germans to such infamy...
Among older viewers the reaction is often uneasiness. Says West Berliner Eva Becker, 76: "That was how Hitler was. He was black magic, and intoxicated people. We thought of him only as a dynamic leader who got the nation on its feet again and solved the awful unemployment problem." Fest aims to correct the ignorance that one generation has forced upon its successor, so that a second Hitler cannot rise to power-and for most viewers, he succeeds. Says he: "If you want to make a society a little more secure against someone like Hitler, then you must give people...
...acres, more than 1,000 slaves and perhaps the largest collection of books in the colonies -at a time, notes Brooks-Baker, when "wealth was measured by the number of fine volumes you had." King was also a banker; his three Virginia estates are still owned by Carters, the Fest of the FFV (First Families of Virginia...