Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professor of German Maria M. Tatar will lead Literature and Arts A-18. "Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood," during the spring semester. Tatar says the class will be unique because "it focuses on children's literature, a subject not tackled often at Harvard...
Weary Professor of German and comparativeLiterature Judith L. Ryan says core lectures cuther off from students to such an extent that thereis a "remote control effect...
...ominous health warnings. But with a few notable exceptions, such as in Singapore and Australia, cultural attitudes and habits have largely quashed such efforts. Foreigners, who seem only too eager to inhale most aspects of American culture, regard the U.S. obsession with smoking as overwrought. "The whole thing," sniffs German teacher Waltraud Gruneisl, "borders on mass psychosis...
...everyone suddenly jumping on the antismoking bandwagon? After all, critics have been proclaiming the dangers of smoking for hundreds of years. King James I of England in 1604 branded the habit "loathsome." Even Adolf Hitler was a fanatical opponent of tobacco; signs declaring DEUTSCHE WEIBER RAUCHEN NICHT (German women do not smoke) were posted throughout the Third Reich during World...
Saturday: Was unanimously elected to a 10-year term as dictator of the Liberal Democratic Party during a Moscow party conference; guests included a German neofascist and a delegation from Iraq...