Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaking graduate student in East European physical science with secret security clearance. A company happened to be looking for someone with just this combination of skills. A student whose parents are Hungarian but who had lived in Germany was once asked to translate a marriage license from Hungarian into German...
...Make a note of the name of Nixdorf," read advertisements that have been appearing in West German news papers. By such direct promotion, a stripling in the computer field has established its own European image among such veterans as IBM, Machines Bull and Siemens. With only 700 employees in a factory in the Westphalian town of Paderborn, Nixdorf still sells two out of every three small digital computers bought in West Germany. At the annual Hannover fair, Nixdorf's first-time display became a magnet for Germans interested in business machines; of the fairgoers who visited the Nixdorf booth...
Almost any photograph of a Northern European city street scene taken around 1900 shows how decisively art nouveau (or its German version, Jugendstil) permeated the Mauve Decade. As the first art style since the Industrial Revolution to integrate every phase of design, its florid, free-flowing lines ornamented buildings and posters, park benches and Metro stations, Tiffany glass and Liberty silks. Yet few styles have had a shorter life. It achieved its purplest popularity between 1895 and 1900, was fading fast by 1914. With the advent of the machined precision of the 1920s Bauhaus modernism, handcrafted art nouveau became...
...hrer Prinzip than with bluff British pragmatism. Never for a moment is the playgoer unaware that this is a Teutonic Churchill and that Hochhuth is still playing the blame game-not so much to prod the consciences of other men as to slough off on them part of the German burden of guilt for the holocausts of war and genocide...
...writer"), or taking his place as the boldest public wit since Wilde. Strachey never hesitated to flaunt his homosexual inclina tions. His finest moment may have come during his court hearing as a conscientious objector in 1916, when he was asked what he would do if he saw a German soldier raping his sister. Strachey paused two beats, then remarked: "I would try to interpose my own body...