Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember her telling me about her father, whom she never saw. He was in the Resistance during the German occupation. An informer led the Nazis to the cave where he was contacting the British on the wireless. They executed him on the spot. My friend became a fervent Papandreous supporter in the late fifties, when she learned that the informer had emerged a candidate for Parliament on the Conservative ticket. He had never been brought to trial: in the name of anti-Communism, most Nazi collaborators escaped punishment in post-war Greece. In fact, Kollias, the head of the present...
Violins & Candy Bars. Western music was introduced into Japan before the turn of the century, but its tonalities and forms were so alien to the whining microtones of Oriental music that it found only a small following. By the 1930s, German music teachers had settled in Japan and introduced their ear-training methods into school music programs. The Japanese, in turn, brought the Western techniques to Korea during their prewar occupation. After World War II, the presence of Americans in Japan and Korea stimulated even more interest in the Western repertory...
...turnstiles to what had been, by almost all measures, the most successful world's fair in history. In the surge of last-day crowds, souvenir hunters made off with a guitar autographed by the Beach Boys from the U.S. pavilion and a nativity crib from the West German pavilion. But no amount of petty vandalism could sully Expo's singular triumph: in just six months the fair had racked up a total attendance of 50 million*-20 million more than had been expected...
...Henri Decae's location shots offer a remarkable re-creation of a land where images of voodoo gods and the Virgin Mary are worshiped at the same rituals. The cast of supporting villains and victims-led by Peter Ustinov-is uniformly excellent. As a fading beauty with a German accent, Taylor is reasonably effective, but Burton, playing an exhausted anti-hero in the same style as his memorable The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, seems to have stepped from the pages of the novel...
Died. Friedrich Gogarten, 80, German theologian; of a heart attack; in Göttingen, Germany. An influential but little-known force in the shifting tide of modern Protestantism, Gogarten first joined Karl Earth in the 1920s in a revolt against liberal Christianity, postulating a neo-orthodoxy that stressed the Biblical imperatives of God's word to man. He retreated into seclusion when the Nazis took and twisted to their own ends his idea of a necessary link between theology and a dynamic' social order. After the war, Gogarten backed Rudolf Bultmann's demythologization of the Bible...