Word: germane
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...powerful but "potent." High on the list of accolades was "able." All were masculine terms of approbation: the news in Homeric mode, demigods or villains on tiptoe. TIME's writers loved Homer's narrative techniques. Compound adjectives: Mexico's President Francisco Madero was "wild-eyed." The World War I German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was "long-whiskered." Public figures were tagged with mock-heroic identifying phrases. Minnesota's Senator Henrik Shipstead was invariably "the duck-hunting dentist...
Which made him something of an anomaly. Outside the U.S. the 1930s was an era of dictatorship and, increasingly, of death. In the Soviet Union millions perished in the Ukraine famine of 1932-33 and the Great Terror of 1936-38. Hitler, meanwhile, was ending German unemployment largely by building a war machine that had to be turned loose eventually--and was, on Sept...
...Bruner, a noted psychologist and professor at New York University; Leon Kass, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago; Ellen Kennedy, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania; Isaac Kramnick, a political theory professor at Cornell University; and Maria M. Tatar, professor of German at Harvard. Bruner co-founded Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies in 1960 while a professor here...
Professor of German Peter J. Burgard says Schoenhof's has an "out-standing" selection of German classics as well as contemporary literature...
DIED. ERNST JUNGER, 102, militaristic German writer, in Wilflingen, Germany. Junger's controversial early novels extolled German nationalism and totalitarianism and attracted a following among the emerging Nazi Party. He rejected the party, however, and in 1939 wrote a novel critical of a thinly disguised Hitler. In later years he publicly repudiated the bellicosity of his youth...