Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the judges wrote finis to the Nürnberg record, the world got one more close-up glimpse of the Nazi nightmare. SS Lieut. General Gottlob Berger, 52, one of the few men Himmler ever called by his first name (translated it means "Praise God"), had set up the dreaded SS Sonderkommando units. One Sonderkom-mando, one of his own officers had testified, used to pick out the prettiest Jewish girls. "They stripped them," he recounted, "injecting them with strychnine, and watched them die." The bodies, said the witness, were then boiled into soap. "Praise God" got 25 years...
...Easter Monday 33 years ago a pale, impassioned schoolmaster named Patrick Pearse marched out of the door of Dublin's General Post Office, hauled a flag of green, white and orange to the peak of the flagpole and in a ringing voice hurled a challenge at his British overlords: "Supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe ... Ireland strikes in full confidence of victory . . . We hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State...
...page Dialogues on Music, published in Zurich, Germany's Wilhelm Furtwangler, now shelved in the U.S. because of his Nazi leanings (TIME, Jan. 17), admitted to a gnawing distrust of the tastes of audiences in general. An audience, he wrote, is "a mass without a will of its own . . . which reacts automatically to any stimulus. Its first reaction is frequently right, but very often it is thoroughly wrong. How could we otherwise explain that operas like Carmen, A'ida and La Boheme, today among the most durable successes, flopped* completely when performed for the first time...
...General Tom Clark, turned up as a volunteer defender of the 18 strikers when they were taken to court. In midweek, the Easter vacation came, and C.C.N.Y.'s strikers stopped picketing the campus. The strike, they promised, would continue after the holiday...
...them. "They cannot look at a thing and tell you what they see; listen to sounds and know what they hear; by the touch truly perceive form; sense how others feel and why; read, write, speak with any sure knowledge of how words are to be handled . . . think in general terms as distinct from specific and concrete particulars...