Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gerryflappers. For a seven-year period, inaugurated by Conductor Leopold Damrosch, not a word of anything but German was heard in the house. Wagner was performed in thunderous repetition, and the greatest soprano of the period, Lilli Lehmann, sang Carmen in German in her Met debut. But during the Met's "Golden Age of Song," at the turn of the century, Jean and Edouard de Reszke, Emma Eames, Lillian Nordica, Nellie Melba, et al. educated their audiences to hear Italian and French operas sung in their original languages. Still, educated or not, Guest Star Adelina Patti could stop...
...furniture store in east Baltimore in 1857 by Immigrant Peddler Samuel Hecht, four of whose five sons later entered the business (present Chairman Hecht is a grandson). May Co. got its start in 1878 in Leadville. Colo., a mining boom town where David May, a 26-year-old German immigrant, founded a clothing store. David May spread his stores through the Midwest, and his son Morton J. May, Buster May's father and the chairman of May Co., expanded the chain coast to coast. Buster still consults with his father but has run his own show since taking over...
...Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, ailing and confined to his village, almost surely cannot attend. Other doubtful participants: France's Georges Cardinal Grente, 86, and Chile's Jose Cardinal Caro Rodriguez, 92, both in poor health; Nationalist China's exiled Thomas Cardinal Tien, ailing in a West German hospital...
Mistakes Will Happen. Tanguy was herded into a sealed cattle car with a group of Jewish children bound for a German concentration camp. For 3½ days, under a broiling August sun. the railroad car remained unopened while the children wept, sickened, and gradually lost control of their natural functions. Tanguy kept up his courage by believing that it was all a "mistake," and that once the authorities found out that he was not Jewish they would send him back to his mother. The word "mistake" recurs through Del Castillo's book and picks up the same rhetorical power...
What happened to Tanguy at the Nazi camp adds little to the all too familiar living-death literature. What gives it a special horror in this book is that it all happens to a little boy. Tanguy would surely have died but for a German friend named Gunther who mothered him, fired his flagging will to live, and, before his own death, left the boy a matchless maxim: "Leave hate to those who are too weak to love...