Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...modernist culture. Though modernism had long flirted with the idea of historical amnesia, treating the past as though it were a drag on invention, it was not equipped to deal with the actual destruction of that past by war and ideology. Whole tracts of culture-German Romanticism; classical sculpture, with its image of the ideal, prosperous body-had been laid waste, fatally contaminated, by the use the Nazis had made of them, just as the Realist option had been wrecked by official Stalinist...
Still, whoever else may be doing it, Time Warner has undeniably made itself a major presence in the outer reaches of hard-edged rap. It may not be the largest distributor of rap music (the German-based Bertelsmann Music Group accounts for an 18.5% share of the rap market, compared with Time Warner's 16.4%), but it is home to several of the biggest and baddest performers, due largely to its ownership stake in Interscope, a small label that releases Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg. (Earlier this year, Time Warner increased its ownership in Interscope from...
...everyone -- victors as well as vanquished. Like Prager's family, mine fled westward from advancing Russian troops. When my mother escaped with her four underage children, there were only cattle cars available on the last train. Like Prager, I spent time in refugee camps. With a Polish father, a German mother and a grandfather named Abram, "Germans" such as us were about as responsible for Nazi atrocities as are today's Serb peasants for "ethnic cleansing." The community of man requires empathy for the suffering of all, free from concepts of race, nationality or religion. ELFRIEDE H. KRISTWALD Decatur, Georgia...
...flags, fanfares and festivities commemorating V-E day that we in Britain were subjected to. It is well known that the British are not particularly Euro-friendly, but if the British adult population wishes to partake in and build Europe for my generation, then surely the time for anti-German propaganda, abundant during the past few weeks, is over. Realistically, our German counterparts cannot enjoy watching Britain relive her glory in the face of so much German suffering, shame and sorrow. Victory in today's Europe is what is important, not the atrocities of the war-torn '40s. BALVEEN AJIMAL...
MARKUS WOLF German court grants amnesty to ex-East German spymaster...