Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I have been fortunate enough to travel to London, I hear the many dialects but see through to the German and Anglo-Saxon roots, the transparencies just beyond. The idiom is more immediate, or in an alternate-universe way. How did we settle on "Call me" instead of "Ring me"? "Putting me on" instead of "having me on"? Drugs money, way out--the Latin "exit" just wrenches you ever after! When you are frustrated by a friend, do you say, "it really does me brains in?" Will you next time, instead of "it bugs...
...same time, the harsh conditions imposed on Germany at Versailles--including the infamous "war guilt" clause--clearly led to the resurgence of German nationalism. That the United States did not ratify the agreement shows nothing more than that the Senate in 1920 recognized a bad treaty when it saw one. Perhaps if our European allies had followed our example and tried to work out a more equitable agreement, the catastrophes of the subsequent two decades might have been avoided...
...first page of his Antimemoirs, Andre Malraux tells how in a clear night he met a Catholic priest with whom he had fled months before from the German invasion of France and who at the time was busy handing out false certificates of baptism to persecuted Jews. Malraux asked him if confession had taught him anything and the priest replied that only very little, just that people are much unhappier that one thinks, and that, in the end, what happens is "qu'il n'y a pas de grandes personnes" (that there are no great persons, or, as one translator...
...there were style points for football, Harvard (3-2, 1-1 Ivy) would have gotten a 10 out of 10 based on the first half, even from the always-stingy East German judge. The second half was far lower in technical and artistic merit--about a zero on both scales...
...brass at DaimlerChrysler have finally decided to re-enter the world of stock-car racing. The German-American automaker will announce this week that it is offering a car with a Chrysler engine and a Dodge body to NASCAR teams. The old Chrysler Corp. dropped out of stock-car racing when the company slashed its motor-sports program in the 1970s in an effort to save money. It is no secret in Detroit that representatives from NASCAR have been wooing Dodge for years in hope that the addition of another big all-American nameplate will help make the Winston...