Word: gemiitlichkeit
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Clavell's intentions are above that order: his story does have real possibilities as a vehicle for communicating the hypnotic attraction of humanist gemiitlichkeit amidst deteriorating world situations. Cross The Seventh Seal with Lost Horizon and you have a good idea of the conception's attractiveness. But it is in his attempt not to play with the material that Clavell manages to kill his situation's bite...
...Teamsters Boss Dave Beck, 72, the place was a veritable Vic Tanny's West. Released 22 months ago, after serving half of a five-year stretch for income tax evasion, Beck boasts that "I came out in better shape than I went in." Since the kind of Gemiitlichkeit that goes with his $50,-000-a-year Teamsters pension was out, he picked up "the exercise habit" in the hoosegow, made it a point "to be out on that exercise track every morning." Now in his Seattle pad, Beck can't shake the stir-born routine of stretching...
...Russia and is considering a deal to put up a rolling mill in North Korea. Austria has also signed a series of barter treaties with Russia and the satellites, manages to run a payments surplus because foreign tourists spend $523 million a year to enjoy its Alps and its Gemiitlichkeit...
...fallen to Rummel, in his old age, to make the key decision. Born in Baden, Germany, Rummel grew up in the Gemiitlichkeit atmosphere of Manhattan's Yorkville district, and served in a number of New York City parishes, including one in Harlem, after his ordination in 1902. Named Bishop of Omaha in 1928, Rummel seven years later was appointed Archbishop of New Orleans, which boasts the largest Roman Catholic population (654,000) of any city in the Deep South...
Such waspish suspicions were thrust aside in the sudden Gemiitlichkeit of Moscow's reception. On the first night in town, the visitors were shipped out to a spacious dacha once occupied by Maxim Gorky, to be wined and dined by the Kremlin's biggest wigs. Clad in gleaming white, Premier Malenkov himself strode to the garden to pick a bouquet of purple phlox and red gladioli for Dr. Edith. Some time later he soothed her feminist ardor with the assurance that women in the field of education were "too often overmodest." So many happy vodka toasts were drunk...
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