Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHIMNEYS, by Nelly Sachs. The 75-year-old Nelly Sachs, who lives in Sweden, writes in German and was rescued from almost total obscurity by 1966's Nobel Prize, appears as a powerful singer of the fate of the Jewish people...
...women do not testify. Yet doctors in most states can never forget that the sole defense is proven necessity to save the patient's life. Only seven states even consider her health or safety. Actually, most hospital abortions are performed for admittedly illegal reasons, notably mental illness and German measles (25% of the 1964 total). Unfortunately, fear of the consequences creates vast inequities. To fend off prosecution, special hospital boards often use quotas and render questionable moral judgments...
More complicated objections to limited legislation are now being raised by Catholic clerics, who regard Colorado-style laws as a blatant c^se of state-approved eugenics, never before established in U.S. law. To abort a rubella (German measles) victim, they say, is to rely on the purely statistical chance (average odds: 50-50) that her child may be defective-and to doom a possibly perfect baby in the process. To abort a fetus produced by rape or incest, they say, is to execute the most innocent partv in the trianele purely for the mother's social convenience. Even...
...teaching fellows were drawn from the German, Romance Languages, and Mathematics Departments, and from the Expository Writing program. But they showed no tendency to split along departmental lines, Whitla said...
After earning his doctorate, Allport spent three years studying in Germany and England. He was one of the first non-German popularizers of the theories of Gestalt psychology, which suggests that concepts are recorded by the mind as wholes, not as the sum of their component elements...