Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pauck was referring to the theory of German Theologian Rudolf Bultmann (TIME, Sept. 24, 1956) that the forms in which the Gospel is set down had meanings for the people who wrote it which are no longer clear to contemporary men. They must be reinterpreted in order to be understood and communicated. Historian Pauck seems to leave out of consideration, however, the increasing popularity in recent decades of a more demanding, more theological, more supernatural form of religion in both Catholic and Protestant Christianity and in Judaism as well...
...seldom shown Siegfried Kramarsky collection, including Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Cachet and Garden of Daubigny, which Hitler ordered sold from German museums because'they were "degenerate." ¶ Goya's Don Vicente Osorio, portrait of a Spanish prince at the age of ten, owned by the Charles S. Paysons. <¶ A whole roomful of first-class Cezannes...
About 1830, workmen took down the theater's interior, but some foresighted official, who knew that the world's taste ebbs and flows, had each piece carefully numbered. In 1857 the tide turned, and the interior was easily reassembled. Twenty-six years later it became the first German theater equipped with Edison's new invention, electric lighting, and in 1896 it boasted the first revolving stage outside Japan...
...people cheered wildly last week as the S.S. Hanseatic hove into view, ending its maiden voyage to New York exactly on schedule. For Hamburg and all of West Germany, the voyage was indeed cause for celebration. The newest, biggest (30,029 gross tons), fastest (21 knots) liner under the German flag, the Hanseatic represents a mighty step forward in a mighty comeback for West Germany's merchant marine. For the first time, total tonnage has climbed above prewar levels...
Taxes & Tourists. With many former German shipyards now in Communist territory, West Germany still ranks only tenth in world tonnage, v. fifth before the war. But the fact that it has climbed even that high is remarkable, because World War II wiped out the German merchant marine. Ninety-seven percent of Germany's total tonnage was sunk or captured, the rest confiscated. Scraping together what slim funds were available, German shipbuilders started in 1949 to rebuild their fleet. To help them along, the government decreed that money invested in merchant ships could be deducted from income...