Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commuted between CERN and the Bohr Institute--or between Maria, the gorgeous blonde daughter of a German bassoonist, and Bonnie, my dark Danish damsel...
...Wursthaus offers upwards of 100 kinds of beer--prices vary--but it was out of our first three choices, Corona, Bud and Miller. We tried two German beers we had never tasted before and cringed at their bitterness...
When asked if the pledge had come from Gorbachev himself, Kohl said only that it was made "during the talks." His remarks in German were translated into English by the Soviet Foreign Ministry...
...wrong one. The sudden foreboding had a specific primal antecedent in time and place and noon sunshine: the nerves were reaching back exactly to the imprint made upon the American mind on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. And as one boards the Dukakis plane in San Francisco, a frisky German shepherd pokes around the luggage, sniffing for high explosives...
...typical of Sontag that she would turn a personal preoccupation into an occasion for larger reflections. Her collected work is a map of her consuming passions: the French writer Roland Barthes, the German critic Walter Benjamin, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. (In her spare time, she has directed four films abroad.) All her work aims at defining a vaporous but crucial notion, the modern sensibility. She combines a metropolitan taste, omnivorous and hard to satisfy, with a transatlantic mind, drawn to European writers and filmmakers. Often she discusses them in the European form of fragments and epigrams. "I get impatient...