Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FUTURE OF GERMANY, by Karl Jaspers. In a remarkable work of national selfcriticism, the German philosopher appeals to his countrymen to relinquish the dream of a perfectly ordered state and to forge a nation based on individual political and moral responsibility...
...Kuwait and Bahrain-learned of plans to pull back Britain's 6,000 troops guarding the Persian Gulf oil route, probably in 1971. Britain even placed its European commitments under review, especially the Rhine Army of 52,000, whose continued presence in West Germany seemed more dependent on German offers to offset costs than anything else. In fact, as Defense Minister Denis Healey watched his establishment mercilessly pared, he must have wondered somewhat whether his entire ministry was not one of the three suggested on Fleet Street to be ready for mothballs...
Still, the peaceniks' skillful drumbeating, such as a recent, largely staged film on French TV about an underground railroad for defecting G.I.s, lends their campaign exaggerated importance. West Germany has a law on the books that expressly forbids the recruitment of U.S. deserters, but the radical German Socialist Student Association regularly penetrates G.I. bars, distributes antiwar tracts and occasionally intercepts U.S. soldiers on maneuvers. Helped by other peace groups, the German organization offers to smuggle disenchanted G.I.s out of the country and to provide forged passports if necessary...
...Tempest. To keep in touch with distant friends, Mehta runs up telephone bills of $1,500 a month, thinks nothing of playing recordings by the great German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler over a transcontinental wire to Barenboim. Sleepless in New York City at 5 a.m. one day just before New Year's, he suddenly realized that in Vienna, where it was 11 a.m., the Vienna Philharmonic would be playing one of its traditional New Year's Johann Strauss concerts. He put in a call to the concert hall, had the manager hold the phone...
...pretend they have been holed up together for days. They yell at each other and chain-drink. The camera stays mostly on Mailer, who goes "Unhh! Unhh!" a lot while he is thinking up dirty words. People come and go. One is a prizefighter (José Torres) with a German shepherd. Norman has a protracted barking contest with the dog, and spars a round with Torres, demonstrating the killer-wombat style with which he has enlivened so many Manhattan parties. Toward the end, two broads arrive-one of them Beverly Bentley, the current Mrs. Mailer. She hands him a knife...