Word: georges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above all, Georg Dertinger was a man who survived. He prided himself on stepping out of the ashes, unscarred, adjusting his monocle and going on. He not only got along well while his country almost perished, he profited by its convulsions...
...bullyboy in the paramilitary nationalist Freikorps, and as a poison-pen rightist journalist, Dertinger helped kill off the democratic Weimar Republic. When Hitler came in, he became an official in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, with a big picture of Von Ribbentrop on his desk. Then when the Russians arrived, Georg confided to a friend, "I will walk the tightrope over Communism as surely as I did over Naziism...
...substitute Halda, the clerk who sold it to Helander reported that the bishop had quite a time selecting it, examining serial numbers and comparing the typing with that on a piece of paper he had brought with him. He also gave his name as "Georg Arvidsson from Sodertalje." Helander's explanation for the assumed name: he was shy by nature, and anyway, "we human beings don't all act like rational machines...
...actually want to be normal, U.S. doctors agree that psychiatric treatment, sometimes accompanied by hormones of the patient's own sex. often effect real cures. But in some cases of transvestitism, as in severe cases of homosexuality, cures are exceptional at best. Jorgensen's Danish psychiatrist, Dr. Georg Stuerup, insists that "not one of the major psychotherapists has ever published a satisfactory example of a real, severe case of homosexuality or transvestitism that had been treated successfully...
Bartok: Dance Suite (London Philharmonic conducted by Georg Sold; London). Composed 30 years ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest, this six-part piece is full of earthy spirit. It is played expertly and enthusiastically...