Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to English, Afro-American studies, history and literature and religion, other departments relocating to the old Union building include German and Slavic studies...
Mack was mule skinner--"that's a mule handler; some people envision me taking the hide off of mules"--and then a radio operator in the 10th, earning the Bronze Star for carrying a radio to a unit cut off on the front line. By the German surrender, he was north of the Po river in the Italian Alps...
...most marked changed in my interest has been my shift from being mostly interested in German theology to American religious thought and literature," he adds. Niebuhr has written analyses of the work of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
Marsden Hartley's Portrait of a German Officer...
Later American art contains elegies of a more personal kind, right down to the various works of art that reflect the grief of the AIDS epidemic. Among the most moving utterances of personal loss, though the most heavily coded, is Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), evoking his homosexual lover, who was killed at the start of World War I. By contrast, Andy Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962, illustrates America's yearning for the sainthood of remote, unknowable celebrity...