Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After examining both the Japanese and German naval archives, and armed with a view of the war as a whole, he and his assistants then set out to record what they had seen and learned. In April, 1946, he returned to his Chair in the History Department and wrote the naval history "weekends, holiday, and other days before 0900 and after...
...easy getting men into occupied territory," Katz says, "but Germany was difficult. There weren't many Germans who wanted help, but our principal assistance came from the German practice of putting captured men to work as slave labor in Nazi factories. The roads were full of such people after the Ruhr bombardment, and we were able to get people in under cover as wandering unemployeds...
...long been a tacit assumption of German scholarship that if something can be defined, it must therefore exist. The Herr Professors of the Teutonic school have never quite seen eye to eye with Shakespear's query, "What's in a name?" The name, time and again, is everything. The category is sacred, the appelation supreme...
...Busch-Reisinger this month there is an exhibition devoted to two such titles. One is romanticism the other its successor, naturalism. I hesitate to say romanticism and naturalism in German art, because there is a good deal more attitude than art here, more description than substance...
Attached to the formal exhibition are a number of modern German paintings--officially Expressionistic--which are familiar objects about the museum. It pays to take a good look at them after seeing these other works...