Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...putting his signature of approval on blueprints for barracks in Hitler's death camps during World War II. Lübke came under such heavy attack that last week, in an extraordinary move for a head of state, he bowed to public pressure and appeared on nationwide German TV to answer charges about his wartime activities. In a brief, four-minute telecast, he traced his wartime career as an auditor in a Berlin architect's office that designed plants and workers' barracks, firmly denied that he had anything to do with extermination camps. "Those who vilify...
Difficult to Escape. Even though they had earlier insisted that Lübke remain silent, Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and his Cabinet now decided that Lübke should take his case to the people. All three parties in the Bundestag issued strong statements of support for him. German political leaders knew, after all, that Lübke had been no Nazi and that he had even spent 20 months in Nazi prisons during the 1930s. The barrack plans that he signed were probably for forced laborers at such installations as the German rocket facility of Peenemünde. Those...
...horn blast from Aida, 232 guests marched into the dining room at the Birnam Wood Country Club in Santa Barbara, Calif., to raise hosannas to Soprano Lotte Lehmann on her 80th birthday. It was the sort of occasion that called forth a telegram of congratulations from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and commanded the presence of such votaries as Tenor Lauritz Melchior, Actress Judith Anderson and Conductor Zubin Mehta. "I am excited and overwhelmed," said Lehmann, who retired 17 years ago but still teaches master classes in voice at the University of California at Santa Barbara...
...upon man's "feeling of absolute dependence" and what he called "a sense and taste for the Infinite." Man, he argued, could never define or explain God, only his own experience of the divine. To Schleiermacher, church doctrines were primarily articulations of religious feelings, and he scandalized German Protestantism in his early writings by coolly appraising Christianity not as a faith with a unique monopoly on truth but simply as "the highest and purest" of the world's many religions. Skirting the question of Christ's divinity, he defined Jesus as "the completion of the creation...
...Yakov tried to shoot himself. He only managed to inflict a serious head wound, and Stalin afterward taunted him that he was incapable even of killing himself. It might have impressed the old man to know that his son finally mustered the courage to do the job, even with German help...