Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact is that if violence is not innate, it is a basic component of human behavior. The German naturalist Konrad Lorenz believes that, unlike other carnivores, man did not at an early stage develop inhibitions against killing members of his own species-because he was too weak. As he developed weapons, he learned to kill, and he also learned moral restraints, but these never penetrated far enough. Writes Lorenz: "The deep emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the cocking of a forefinger to release a shot tears the entrails of another...
...earth shook to the roar of can non and the bite of heavy treads as German-built Leopard tanks and tank destroyers, more than 100 strong, staged a mock panzer battle at the Bundeswehr proving grounds at Munsterlager...
...overruled, Schröder carried his fight from the Defense Ministry, newly housed in a gleaming complex above the Rhine that has inevitably been nicknamed the Pentabonn, into the public arena. He leaked to the press that the cuts would mean a reduction of 60,000 men in the German army. The calculation was his own and not necessarily accurate, since the reductions could be taken in equipment as well as men. Still, the ensuing headlines brought the desired result. Washington, irritated that Kiesinger had not informed it in advance of the budget reduction, let it be known that...
Route to High Finance. These names and others-Schiff, Warburg, Straus, Goldman, Guggenheim, Sachs-form what Stephen Birmingham calls Manhattan's "other Society," the great Jewish families of New York. Their founders, nearly all of them German, arrived in the U.S. in the middle decades of the 19th century. Nearly all of them were desperately poor; but in a young nation willing to reward industry, they succeeded beyond their dreams, along a route that led from peddlers' packs to high finance. Today, their banking and brokerage houses stand like monuments on Wall Street, and there are symbols...
...Field went almost unnoticed as a book, but made it fairly big as a motion picture. Actor Sidney Poitier won an Oscar portraying Homer Smith, the book's footloose handyman hero, who used ingenuity, faith and adobe bricks to build a Catholic chapel for a penniless order of German-speaking nuns. In this sequel, Homer works another miracle when, pressed into service as an evangelist at an old-fashioned hallelujah tent meeting, he inspires a crippled girl to walk. Although his tale is almost too short and slight to be put between hard covers, William Barrett (The Left Hand...