Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After all, he was a freshman at the University of Wyoming in the Cowboy State, a campus where real men were supposed to love football and all-night parties. Shepard, barely 5-ft. 2-in. tall and on a good day 105 lbs., preferred political debate and languages (German and Arabic) to the stereotypical masculine pursuits of his father's alma mater. Shepard said his jaw was recently broken by a man in a Cody, Wyo., bar who decked him when he realized he was gay. There are no gay bars in Wyoming. The closest gay nightclubs to Shepard...
Stein's story did not lack for 20th century drama. Born into a German Jewish family on Yom Kippur 1891, she had declared herself an atheist by her teens. In her 20s she became one of the first German women to earn a Ph.D., specializing in the philosophical subdiscipline of phenomenology. Introduced to Catholicism through Christian phenomenologists, she was baptized at age 30, and 11 years later, under her new name, she took the vows of a Carmelite nun. Sister Teresa's stance on Jewish issues was predictably mixed: she wrote a letter to the Pope deploring anti-Semitism...
...doesn't see it that way. "If she hadn't been 100% Jewish, she wouldn't have been killed," agrees Father Peter Gumpel, a senior Vatican saintmaker. But the roundup that doomed her was an explicitly announced reprisal for a brave Catholic stance: the Dutch bishops' denunciation of the German persecution of Jews in a pastoral letter days before. "It was revenge," says Gumpel, and were it not for the bishops' statement, "she wouldn't have been killed. So we have decided to say she is the victim of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Holland by Nazi authorities...
Mansen himself, in Cambridge for the opening of the only American appearance of this show, looks less like a woodcut craftsman than the contemporary German artist that he is, dressed in the black suit and black turtleneck of the Continental avant-garde. Asked why he chose, in these works, to focus on domestic topics, Mansen responds: "When I was a student, everyone was painting crazy things, like giraffes in gas stations. That was fine to a point, but I wanted to do something different. There is something very simple, and familiar, to the domestic." Mansen explains that, even when working...
Nominally a cobbler's apprentice, his master is in jail so often that Pin never works. His older sister is a prostitute whose most frequent customer is a German soldier. This makes her an unpopular figure in certain quarters of Italy during World War II. Pin sleeps in the same room that his sister conducts her business in, and so is precociously knowledgeable about sex. He unhesitatingly shares this with peers, who are fascinated, but find him too different to befriend. Shunned, Pin hangs around a bar and tries to entertain the adults with bawdy songs and neighborhood gossip, rewarded...