Word: germanize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born the son of a German wood carver in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1862, young Maybeck made his way to Paris, studied at the Beaux Arts, developed a deep and abiding love for all the great traditional styles. He treated them as a huge treasure-trove, to be dipped into as the artist's imagination dictated. He returned to the U.S. and moved to San Francisco, where he founded the University of California's architectural department...
...still not sure. It knew that it could not manufacture small cars in the U.S. for the same price, so it compromised. To cash in on the trend, it brought in cars from foreign companies in which the Big Three held big stock interests. General Motors imported the West German-made Opel and the British-made Vauxhall; Chrysler brought in the French Simca, Ford the English Prefect, Consul, Anglia. Since 1955, the Big Three have hiked imports of these foreign cars from 2,100 a year...
...late Ernst Emil Wiechert (1887-1950) was one of the last of a vanished breed of German writers-romantic in feeling, mystical in outlook, spendthrift in prose (in his 63 years he wrote 60 books, none of them very well known in the U.S.). When Hitler came to power, Wiechert backed one of the dictator's most detested internal enemies, Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller, and paid for it with five months in Buchenwald concentration camp followed by years of enforced silence. Tidings, Wiechert's posthumous novel (first published in Germany in 1953) is the fruit of his musings...
Victory Means Nothing. Like wounded animals, three noble German brothers drag themselves home to their Hessian castle at the close of World War II. The eldest heals his wounds by charity, tending the displaced persons who occupy the castle. The second heals himself by husbandry, tending the displaced soil and its peasants. But the third brother, Amadeus, finds no panacea to hand. Years in a concentration camp have killed his trust in human beings. War and revolution have so sapped his faith in the earth itself that he can only sigh skeptically when a cheerful clergyman assures him that healing...
Poker at Seven. The son of a German rabbi, Wolff early developed a crank interest in religion and, at seven, was so critical of the tenets of the Jewish faith that his exasperated aunt threw a poker at him. He examined Lutheranism and found it wanting, tried Roman Catholicism but was expelled from a Redemptorist monastery, and finally entered the ministry of the Church of England...