Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enosis. In Athens, the English-language Athens News refused a classified ad stating "Greek lady desires to hold conversations with English gentleman on the Cyprus issue in exchange for lessons in Greek, German or piano" on the ground that "the lessons would be doomed to failure...
...Arcadia ship has occasionally sailed on stormy seas. On "Flagpole Day" (last May 16) a few students raised a German swastika over the campus. Three air force sergeants, two city electricians, and a hook and ladder crew were required to get it down...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture Feininger is a German painter. At the Whitney Museum of American Art he is an American painter. The ambiguity, which is more than geographical, does him credit. It bespeaks the potencies of the individual...
...oils and watercolors at Busch-Reisinger this month looks especially good. Feininger's ocean canvases contain all the architecture of his cathedral paintings. Their crispness remains taut and concise without suffering that mechanical rigor mortis which lurked in such abundance in the ranks of the Bauhaus. If this is German art, it is German in the sense that it pursues the kind of gentle lyricism which illuminates the music of Haydn, and in that it follows the path of classical rectitude which soars so in Bach. Happily, these works are devoid of the more histrionic and sentimental aspects of Teutonic...
...third son of a Milwaukee grocer of German descent, he showed an early leaning to the priesthood (his sister, a nun, remembers that at the age of five he used to play at saying Mass with a cloth over an old table and a glass of water for the chalice of wine). In his early parish at Waukesha, Wis., and later as bishop of Superior, Wis., Meyer was more noted as an able administrator than as a fighter for causes, has rarely committed himself on social issues...