Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENEVA, May 11--The Soviet Union and the Big Three Western foreign ministers plunged into cold war negotiations tonight after colliding head-on over German participation. The West beat back a belated Soviet attempt to seat Communist East Germany as a full negotiator...
Embezzled Heaven (Rhombus-Film; Louis de Rochemont) is a reasonably loyal German adaptation, dubbed in English, of the 1940 bestseller in which Franz (The Song of Bernadette) Werfel proposed a parable of modern man's fatal confusion, as he saw it, of the material and the spiritual worlds. The heroine is a dim-witted old peasant woman (Annie Rosar), who works as a cook in a wealthy Austrian family, saves all her pennies to educate her nephew (Kurt Meisel) for the priesthood. Actually the cook does not care a fig for the nephew. All she wants is a priest...
...Diary of Anne Frank. Tighter than the book, more fluid than the play, a film masterpiece about the 13-year-old German Jewish girl who survived two years of hiding in occupied Holland, but who survived a concentration camp only in her diary. With Newcomer Millie Perkins, brillantly directed by George Stevens...
...than a participant. Though he writes of his own fears in combat, there is a curious parchment quality, underlined by a self-conscious literary style ("The great god Mars tries to blind us when we enter his realm"). Still, there are brilliant flashes: the appealing face of a young German deserter, smiling in death after being cut down from a tree where the SS had hanged him; the bewilderment and misery of French girls who had "collaborated" simply because they had fallen in love...
GENEVA, May 8--The Soviet Union demanded today that East German representatives be brought into the opening session of the Big Four foreign ministers conference tomorrow as full participants. The Western powers rejected the demand. The dispute created some uncertainty about the actual opening of the conference set for 2:30 p.m. Monday...