Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cultural Leftover. If anything could kill the look on campus, of course, it would be the news that adults are doing it too. West German Playboy Gunter Sachs, it was noted, married Brigitte Bardot in Las Vegas last summer with his socks off, and already there are signs of backlash. "Socklessness is a cultural leftover," fumes one Princetonian. Sock sales are even rising in some areas. Still, as the first snowstorms swirled across the Midwest last week the purists were standing fast. "If I could get a pair of lined desert boots," said one, thinking onward in Wisconsin, "maybe...
Tony Hendra was born in London in an air raid during the German blitz, and his first toy was a piece of shrapnel that landed in his cradle. Nic Ullett, also born in London, was soon evacuated to the countryside, where he was given the privileges of living in a corrugated-iron hut and attending school with six other boys and 65 girls. By the time the two of them met a couple of decades later at Cambridge, their thoughts had somehow acquired a satirical hue. Written down, polished, and delivered onstage with maniacal precision, their reflections on the state...
...over Gaul and drop your bombs just north of the Holy Roman Empire -but don't fly too far or you'll fall off. When you're shot down, pretend to be a tourist. We have provided you with a manual containing such typical German phrases as 'Get out of my way before I kick you in the groin...
...sure, European workers, having started lower, still have a lot of catching up to do. The average American factory hand collects $108 a week before taxes. By contrast, the British auto worker last year had a pretax income of $63 a week, the German $55, the French $43. But income figures are only part of the equation. When living costs, government services, and the many immeasurable fringe benefits are added in, the balance - while still favoring the American worker - is distinctly less lopsided. The fringes, for example, account...
Even Bike Money. French industry shuts down almost completely during August, giving workers four weeks' vacation, and in almost every other European country workers get at least three weeks away from the job. German companies provide their vacationing employees with extra pocket money, as much as 30% of regular pay, while Italian firms run vacation facilities specifically for employees. The average American must work for a company for ten years before getting three weeks, gets only one week during his first three years, and has never heard of extra vacation money or company resorts...