Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning of October, a member of the Slavic department had translated the poster into English from the original Russian, Czech, and German. The exhibit, on loan from the donor, wil continue through this month...
...well-precisioned West German crew, clocked at 6:07.00 for the 2000-meter Xochimilco course, captured the gold medal and upset pre-race favorite New Zealand (6:10.43), which eventually finished fourth...
Married. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 43, famed German lieder singer; and Christina Pugell, 24, daughter of a Manhattan voice teacher whom he met during a 1967 U.S. tour; he for the third time (his first wife died in 1963; his second marriage ended in divorce last year); in West Berlin...
...subject of that accolade? Allen Ginsberg? Bob Dylan? John Lennon? No; a German raveler of spiritual mysteries named Hermann Hesse, who died in 1962 at 85. His champion was Thomas Mann, and he was reflecting the impact of Hesse's 1919 novel, Demian, on German youth. Today Hesse is no longer so ardently esteemed in his native country, but in the past decade in the U.S. he has steadily risen to the status of a literary cult figure. College students rank him in the pantheon of literary gurus with Dostoevsky, Tolkien and Golding. In hippie hovels, those...
...quite. Hesse's parents were Protestant missionaries, and so it was assumed that he would be a minister. At 14, however, the stultifying confinement of school sent him fleeing from the Maulbronn seminary in Swabia. Unable to find a meaning in his life, unhappy with a rigid German society that seemed to crush his artistic sensibilities, he tried to commit suicide. His parents responded by sending him first to a faith healer, then to a school for the mentally retarded. In 1911, he visited India on a spiritual quest. World War I was a "gut, emotional, experience" for Hesse...