Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wisconsin, these Old World cultures never submerged in the great American melting pot as they have elsewhere. The state's culture is a pot of mulligan stew, with each ingredient clearly distinguishable: the Norwegians near Mount Horeb, the Swiss in New Glarus, the Icelanders on Washington Island. German can be heard on the streets of most cities and towns...
...University of Wisconsin's Department of Rural Sociology has isolated 23 different ethnic stocks as dominating various sections of the state. German, Polish and Norwegian are the leading foreign stocks, with German dominating 51 counties, Norwegian 11 and Polish...
...predominant German population holds authority in high regard, particularly on the family level, and this could mean support for the authority of President Johnson. On the other hand, Germans also have great respect for Wisconsin universities and colleges, which are among the best in the nation. Even Joe McCarthy, who searched Harvard and other Eastern universities for Reds, carefully refrained from implicating the University of Wisconsin--despite its long liberal and socialist traditions...
...odyssey of cockney mechanic Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) and missionary Rose (Katharine Hepburn) down uncharted African waters suggests tense comedy-melodrama: they must, after all, evade rifle fire, skirt rapids, fix boilers, swat flies, brave swamps, remove leeches, blow up German cruisers, and fall in love. Regardless, Huston injects the action with mechanical uncaring: Allnut and Rose talk genially in medium close shot, one of them looks off-screen, says "Look!", and Huston cuts to what they see; he resorts to this lethargic montage in introducing enemy troops, the fort, all rapids, and the boat Louisa. The repetition of dramatic technique...
...Boston crew also won, so a Yankee final was set--appropriately enough--for July 4th: "They had beaten the German crew by only a narrow margin, the day before," Leverett Saltonstall would later recall, "and they weren't at their best...