Word: franz
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Political Cosmonaut. European nationalism seemed to die in the agonies of the most recent war it helped cause. Yet it has become once again the dominant political emotion in Europe. No one has rekindled "la gloire" more assiduously than Charles de Gaulle. When Sampson interviewed Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's Finance Minister mocked De Gaulle the diplomat as "a cross between Joan of Arc and a political cosmonaut." Yet, as Sampson notes, De Gaulle has "taken full advantage of the glamour of nationalism" as well as the allure of anti-Americanism. For his own lifetime, at least...
...LEGEND OF SILENT NIGHT (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). The life of Composer Franz Gruber, played by James Mason and narrated by Kirk Douglas. Adapted from a story by Paul Gallico...
...caucus of West Germany's Christian Democratic Party that two years ago picked Kurt Kiesinger to succeed Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor, 51 votes from Bavaria's Christian Socialist Union (CSU) assured his victory. It was Franz Josef Strauss who threw these votes behind Kiesinger, earning himself a place in the Grand Coalition government. Last week Strauss was saying, "I would rather grow pineapples in Alaska than be the German Chancellor." Hardly anyone in Bonn believed...
...exact science, 1883 was the natal year of a pair of Czech novelists whose lookouts on the problem of monolithic authority and what to do about it are presently very much in point. In a country which has earned its reputation as the common stamping ground of optimistic power, Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek came to know the texture and stink of vast administratives schemes so vicious, irrational, and irremediably tacky that they generate comedy and tragedy, like industrial waste, in awe-some volume, beyond any man's capacity to absorb without the saving intercession...
...were involved in De Gaulle's decision. One of them was pride. The West Germans had failed to mask their glee at France's discomfiture. In fact, the French first learned of the devaluation discussions in Bonn through press reports quoting West Germany's Finance Minister Franz-Josef Strauss. After the final session, Strauss implied that the devaluation was a foregone conclusion. "The French government has to decide the extent of it," he said...