Word: germanicized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The gallantry, in fact, is the false note. Zuckmayer and Käutner have mocked up a marvelous illusion of life in the Nazi ruling circles at the turning point of the war. The scene, as they paint it, is a seething roach nest of military puritans, rat-eyed party...
Peaceful, opposed to change and fiercely dedicated to hard work and to their fundamentalist religion, the Mennonites went to Mexico for the same reasons that they soon may choose to leave it: the land hunger of a burgeoning population, and an unshakable determination to live according to their own bleak...
Although many liberal arts courses were dropped from the catalogue, the staples remained and were taught by the best men in their respective fields. Some academic changes were evident, of course. Science fields were stressed, and most of the labs became top secret war research centers. Many students received intensive...
"Real Loud." When Welk and his accordion first came out of Strasburg. N. Dak. (pop. 800), his music was brash and noisy. A farm boy of Alsatian descent (he still has a faint Germanic accent absorbed from his parents), he learned to play "real loud" at barn dances. One of...
It was from this background, represented by Wolgemut in the woodcut and Schongauer in engraving, that the great transition figure of Albrecht Durer emerged. But the beauty of this exhibit is the opportunity to see the Germanic elements in his art, as well as his foreign innovations. It is clearly...