Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Red Meets Red. Flanked by the ever obsequious East German party boss, Walter Ulbricht, and other flunkies with high titles, Nikita bowled on to the fair, with police making way for him through the crowds (a process referred to in the Communist press as "indescribable scenes of friendship"). In a spirited tour he tossed off a glass of champagne at the French pavilion ("One cannot refuse such a pretty girl"), accepted a British...
...European Common Market and of the United Nations. But in some matters, little Luxembourg looms big. It is the tenth largest steel-producing country in the world; its citizens are the most prosperous in Europe, and so fond of its own frothy beer and heavy dumplings that the Germans market corsets in Luxembourg that are outsized even by German standards. And, according to a U.N. report, Luxembourg's drivers have the highest automobile accident rate in the world...
...Battleground. It is significant that Paul Tillich was born a German, not only because Germany seems to produce philosophers and theologians as Australia produces tennis players, but because few countries in the world have been so shaken by the 20th century. Tillich's parents came from the two main strains of the solid, stolid German middle class: the stark, authoritarian Prussians on his father's side (he was a prominent Lutheran clergyman), the sentimental, gemütlich Rhinelanders on his mother's (she was a schoolteacher). Tillich has been acutely aware of the two temperamental traditions...
...Unified Meaning." Traditionally, the U.S. has imported new theological thought from Europe. Tillich's thought is now moving the other way. His books are rapidly being translated into German (he is too busy to do the job himself) as well as French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. Fellow theologians are increasingly coming to view his work as a monumental and unique effort to match the insights of Christianity with the predicament of modern...
...little (pop. 3,000) north German medieval town of Schoenfliess, where Paulus Tillich grew up, "one lived from Advent to Christmas to Pentecost. At Easter we children walked through the town with bundles of birch rods. It was the custom to beat the adults to get Easter eggs from them. Oh, how well I remember the wonderful fragrance of the fresh leaves!" At eight, Paul had his first brush with his future when "I encountered the conception of the Infinite." By the time he was 16, he knew he wanted to be a philosopher, and to this chancy calling...