Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...came up with something even better. Why not force these carefree, beer-swilling youngsters to spend a year reading and writing about some minor point of unimportant and uninteresting esoterica, say, the role of footnotes in conveying the buried Freudian and feminist perspective of the "Lamb as Other" in German translations of Little Bo Peep...
...Cockroaches come out at night," intones a voice-over announcer in German. On three television screens, larger-than-life cockroaches crawl over sausages and bread. "They breed all over the world," continues the announcer. "For health reasons alone they must be exterminated." Scientists appear, wielding pipettes and tanks of lethal gas. Piles of cockroach cadavers are swept up into dustpans...
This utter fluency in the art may account for Del Monaco's range. As a young director in small German cities like Ulm and Dortmund, he was radical; he set a Butterfly in Saigon (long before Miss Saigon) and a Forza del Destino in Spain during the Civil War. But he is best known for productions that are traditional in concept, modern in their psychological astuteness and, occasionally, rude in their action. At the climax of the love duet in the Met's Butterfly, Pinkerton begins stripping his bride, who throws back her head in ecstasy. On opening night...
...Budapest seminary building now houses the Anne Frank High School, a 76-year-old institution that taught more than 1,000 students a year before the German Occupation. The Nazis turned the high school's original building into a military hospital in 1944, and during the communist era, the authorities took it over as an ordinary state school. The few remaining Jewish students moved into the seminary. In 1962 only two Jewish students graduated, and the school came close to shutting down. But it endured, changed its name to honor the Dutch schoolgirl-diarist murdered by the Nazis...
...English language course," Chinese Family, Marriage, and Kinship: A Century of Change," is a perennially lotteried class. With so few Foreign Cultures choices, the course promises to be oversubscribed and lotteried once again as seniors and others not fluent in German struggle to fill their Core requirements...