Word: german
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...Overkant/Down Under." But like all good court jesters, Kesminas tells salient truths while poking fun-whether at art's over-reliance on theory in Paranoid (courtesy Black Sabbath), at the self-indulgence of Tracey Emin (to the tune of the Police's Roxanne) or at the preciousness of the German art scene (Children of Berlin, by way of Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing.) Says Kesminas, "The art world is really so small when it comes down...
...Harvard’s general education system proposed it over a year ago. Objections raised ranged from it being too vague to it not being able to “put Harvard on the front page of The New York Times,” according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan. True enough. A distribution requirement isn’t a particularly inspiring statement on general education, nor even a particularly intellectually satisfying one. But it does retain the advantages of coherence and practicality. With many options for fulfilling these basic requirements, flexibility for which...
...learned three languages while shooting the movie—Spanish, Japanese, and German,” he said proudly, drawing a round of applause from his audience...
...exported. The Rev. Hakluyt had imagined that the colonies "would yield unto us all the commodities of Europe, Africa and Asia." Perhaps the settlers would discover gold. All they found were a few semiprecious stones--garnets, amethysts, quartz crystals. Perhaps they could manufacture glass. One resupply ship brought eight German and Polish craftsmen. Most of them ran off to live with the Indians...
...attention from every part of the world, severely taxed the students and staff of the university. They managed, however, to answer questions with composure and in dozens of languages. University public relations people found Indian students to speak to Indian media, Korean students to speak to Korean media, German-speaking students to speak to German media - and so on around the globe...