Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Collegium Musicum, took place behind the empty chairs for the performance of Fest und Gedenkspruche, Op. 109. Brahms composed this piece, a collection of three songs, in 1889 as a tribute to Hamburg's liberation. Brahms intended them both as a celebration of Germany's victory in the Franco-German war of 1870-1871 and an expressed hope that Germany would live up to her glorious past...
...students are very scared of poetry," says Judith Ryan, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature. Ryan feels that "many students have unfortunately come to believe that they can't 'do' poetry--that they can't read it, that they can't write satisfactorily about it...Those people...immediately end up with something akin to math phobia--only it's poetry phobia...
...German model Claudia Schiffer, Friday, explaining her take on cloning at a news conference in Peru. The conference was called to promote a local credit card and publicize her upcoming appearance at a Lima fashion show...
Muller, who was dismissed without honor from the German army in the 1940s and was a member of the White Rose movement, said the goal of the protest was to take action against the Nazis and national socialism...
...N.L.A. remains the strongest opposition to a government that last week was again proved to be an international renegade. A German court, in convicting four men of the 1992 murder of four Iranian Kurd dissidents in Berlin, found that the killings were approved at the "highest state levels" in Tehran. After the verdict, Germany recalled its ambassador, ejected four Iranian diplomats and announced it was reassessing the policy of "critical dialogue" that has allowed Bonn to become Iran's principal Western trading partner...