Word: fritz
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...King! On you huskies!", brought to us by Quaker Oats, the cereal shot from guns. We remember the sidekicks: Vic, Tank Tinker, Jim and Penny and Clipper. We remember the villains; the Gray Ghost, Dr. Martelli, the secret agents with German accents, who called one another Klaus and Fritz and Karl. There were, of course, comic books, and we are not unfamiliar with Superman, Batman and Robin, or the Plastic Man. But mostly we listened, and imagined...
...ministers had ever been willing to negotiate with the East Germans. To this, the East Germans coyly asked: What happened June 11, 1955 and Oct. 20, 1956? Adenauer's government had to admit last week that on those dates Adenauer's Finance Minister (now Justice Minister) Fritz Schaffer had indeed crossed over into East Berlin to talk with an East German minister and the Russian ambassador. Schaffer did it on his own, said Adenauer, and had not been deterred because "his conscience" required...
...service chiefs were waiting, with smiles and handshakes, on a red carpet in London's grimy Victoria Station. Artillery in Hyde Park thundered in salute. The scarlet-coated band of the Scots Guards even broke into Deutschland über Alles. Headlined London's tabloid Daily Sketch: O.K., FRITZ, YOU'RE OUT OF THE DOGHOUSE...
Royal Ancestry. But "Fritz" was not out yet. As Heuss and the Queen rode at a horse's pace in an open coach from the station to Buckingham Palace, the crowds stood silent except for an occasional shout, mostly in German. There was none of the hostility shown Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, but Londoners were at best curious, and at worst cold...
...amusing or striking; the atmosphere can quiver with menace; and the expertly managed verse is flexible as other things are rigid. Stuart Vaughan's sound staging and Norris Houghton's shapely set make for helpfully stylized effects, although a cast that includes Florence Reed, Lillian Gish and Fritz Weaver tends to act in varying styles. The cast, understandably, come off best where Eliot did-with the language...