Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Improving Defenses. In two private chats with Gromyko in New York last week, Secretary of State Dean Rusk tried to sound out the Russian diplomat about Soviet intentions, but Gromyko remained unhelpful. Gromyko was equally uncooperative during a chat with West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, who came away with the impression that the Soviets were unyielding in their determination to prevent the Federal Republic from having any further trade and diplomatic contacts with the East bloc...
...less a dramatic polemicist is Peter Schumann, 34, a German sculptor and choreographer who came to the U.S. seven years ago and organized the Bread and Puppet Theater. Schumann and his fellow actors perform mostly in New York City slums where, since receiving a grant two years ago, they run workshops in which ghetto children can make puppets. Before each performance, the company tears fresh loaves of pumpernickel into bits and passes them through the audience-an artistic communion that both engages the viewers' participation and sets the group's humanistic tone. "All of our shows...
...prevent the birth of malformed children, many doctors all over the U.S. perform abortions on women who contract German measles early in pregnancy. Yet such operations are still considered criminal acts, except in a few states (Colorado, North Carolina and Maryland). Three years ago, a few California doctors challenged their own state's restrictive abortion law by publicly announcing that they had aborted German-measles victims.* Now, a California superior court has handed down a ruling that contradicts the California law and challenges similar laws in other states as well. Not only do many doctors regard such abortions...
...first authoritative mariner's manual. Did he look like a rollicking seafarer or a pinch-faced accountant? How pretty was Charlotte Cushman, the American stage's most beguiling actress of the 1840s?Gold was first discovered in California at Sutler's Mill, but who was this German-born idealist, John A. Sutter? And what was his appearance after the gold rush had, paradoxically enough, ruined...
Woozy Notion. To this the author adds three central characters-a German, an Englishman, a German-born Israeli-all lawyers assigned to the case. At first, they seem to invite a formal, wooden trialogue that might be entitled "stances to be taken when confronted by the enormities of the past." The German protects himself from guilt by evolving a woozy, romantic notion of national change and renewal. Today's "good, decent people," he reflects hazily, could no longer be "the same people who had performed the actions . . . the horrifying things they had." The Englishman avoids large moral judgments, clinging...