Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brooklyn College's Professor Harry Slochower was an evasive, smart-aleck witness before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. When Slochower, teacher of German and literature and an authority on Thomas Mann, appeared before the subcommittee in 1952, he was asked, for example, if he could identify any members of the Communist Party. Retorted Slochower: "I am sure Joe Stalin is a member." Slochower invoked the Fifth Amendment three times in refusing to say whether he had been a Communist in 1940 and 1941. He was fired by Brooklyn College under a New York City charter provision that requires automatic...
...therefore, been denied due process of law. The opinion (Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas concurring) was, in fact, careful to point out: "This is not to say that Slochower has a constitutional right to be an associate professor of German at Brooklyn College. The state has broad powers in the selection and discharge of its employees, and it may be that proper inquiry would show Slochower's continued employment to be inconsistent with a real interest in the state...
...Volatile temperament. Germany's Wagnerian Tenor Hans Beirer is not ordinarily temperamental, but at one rehearsal he went into a pet and refused to sing until somebody brought a couch on stage for him to lie on. Hungarian Sandor Konya, rehearsing for the German premiere of Menotti's Saint of Bleecker Street, was scheduled to pick up a knife to stab. When it turned up missing, he flew into a rage and took a walk. It was replaced, but another singer, all unawares, took the replacement knife to peel an orange. This time Kenya's curse-punctuated...
...West German churchmen expressed satisfaction at the latest figures for divorce in the Federal Republic-44,438 in 1954 v. more than 88,000 in 1948. But they frowned at ready recognition of Soviet zone divorces by West zone courts. The new East zone family relations law permits divorce when a marriage has "lost its sense for the spouses, the children and society," and this, Evangelical and Roman Catholic leaders declare, even allows the dissolution of a marriage for political reasons...
...fanaticism as a scared child carries a candle in the dark, and so his whole world is filled with a black monster which he calls the Devil, because he cannot see that it is really his own shadow. Since it is wartime, the shadow falls readily on his German enemies, and he slaughters them with the righteous wrath of an avenging angel...