Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After all the international fretting over whether Konrad Adenauer would get a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag for German rearmament, the Bundestag last week gave its answer. It overwhelmingly enacted the constitutional amendments needed to clear the way for the creation of the new German armed forces. With all but a few Socialists voting in rare solidarity with Adenauer's Christian Democrats, the vote was an overwhelming...
...making a sizable concession to the Socialists: he agreed to place the army under command of a partially autonomous Defense Minister (except in war, when the Chancellor becomes commander in chief). The Socialists in turn abandoned all-out opposition on rearmament, concentrated on making sure that the reconstituted German army would never become a militaristic menace but would take its subordinate place under civilian and parliamentary control. Once the upper house and President Heuss add their approval, the new citizens' Bundeswehr* (Federal Defense Force) can get on with plans to take in some...
...Ranges & Registers. Jenny's teacher is an intense, grizzled, German-born man named Alfred Wolfson, 59, who made his living after World War I as a remedial voice trainer, fled to London after Hitler took power, and there developed a theory that is now almost an obsession. "Man has misjudged, underestimated, neglected and finally stultified his voice," he says. "Man has elevated the sin against nature to a dogma, the dogma of those strictly confined, neatly labeled categories: male voice and female, high voice and low, child's voice and adult's. In reality, the natural human...
...occult. A West Coast hypnotist advertised an offer to "establish the prior existence" of all comers (at $25 an existence). Around the country, while hostesses gave "come as you were" parties and restaurants offered "reincarnation cocktails," ordinary Americans began turning up (often on TV screens) in earlier lifetimes as German leather merchants, French peasants, English princesses, and; in one case, a horse. In Shawnee, Okla., Bridey intrigued a 19-year-old newsboy so mightily that he killed himself after leaving a note that he was going to "investigate the theory in person...
Jacob Henry Tulchin '59 of Wiggles-worth Hall and New York won the Carl Schurz Prize for the highest midyear examination grade in elementary German, Registrar Sargent Kennedy announced yesterday...