Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story on East Germany [April 7] is to the point both in fact and judgment. Unfortunately, however, the contrast to West Germany is no longer "invariably an unfavorable one," as is most remarkably demonstrated by the much superior East German school system, which ranks among the best in the world-despite the obvious flaws in teaching humanities. As a matter of fairness towards our most "beloved enemy," this genuine achievement should not be ridiculed as a mere all-out effort of propagandist indoctrination...
...mission is to be defined that broadly, its ministers will obviously face some pitfalls. They may become involved in complicated situations they do not understand, and they may tarnish the spiritual aura of the church. The intellectual hero of many of the new activists is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Lutheran minister who was executed by the Nazis at the age of 39 for participating in an assassination plot against Hitler. He called for a new "worldly Christianity" to serve a civilization that had "come of age" and no longer needed to be pointed to a "beyond." The new church...
...quarreling about the transit of Russian aid across China by rail, have reached an agreement that will speed the flow. North Viet Nam's Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh went off to make a pitch for even more aid in Peking, Moscow and East Berlin, where the East German Communists are holding their party congress. From the Communist camp outside Viet Nam, a river of arms and economic aid flows into the north that amounts to more than $1 billion a year-and is almost certain to be stepped...
...have shown some interest in a film about the truelife Lavender Hill Mob. What has held up production is worry over the country's stringent libel laws, and a ruling by Britain's film censorship board that such a movie might prejudice the still incomplete case. Meanwhile, German Producer Egon Monk has stolen the story from them. He shot 80% of the movie in England, changing names but otherwise retelling the robbery in straightforward documentary style...
...chance, the train robbers see their fictionalized selves in Robbery, they will doubtless be appalled by the Teutonic treatment of their dazzling crime, portrayed by an all-German cast mouthing dubbed dialogue. They may also be amused that the British have let yet another valuable property fall into the wrong hands-and foreign ones at that...