Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking before the Phillips Brooks House Association dinner, Tillich, one of six University Professors, discussed pre- and post-war Germany and the effects that Fascism and Nazism have had on the German people. He commented that the McCarthy movement was not allowed to spread, because "America is too big a country to be dominated by such a man and by such a cause...
...Americans" observed by Skater Jenkins, international rhubarbs kept Olympic diplomats exercised. The Soviet's state-subsidized "amateurs" tried some gamesmanship, hinted that Canadian hockey players were pros. Everyone wanted to start first in the men's giant slalom, before the course was all cut up. An Italian-German hockey game ended in a brawl...
...German painters denounced as "degenerate" by Hitler, there were only two choices if they were to continue as artists: get out of Germany or go underground. Painters Paul Klee, George Grosz, Josef Albers and Architect Walter Gropius managed to escape; one of the few who chose to remain and survived is Fritz Winter, today rated as Germany's leading abstract-expressionist. To celebrate Winter's 50th birthday, Munich's Günther Franke Gallery is staging a showing of 46 of his paintings, ranging from 1929 to the present. The Munich retrospective, and a current exhibition...
What the Bishop of Rome and the Bishop of Berlin said to each other during their 15 minutes together is an official secret. But German Protestant circles in Rome had it that twice Dibelius raised the subject of Roman Catholic participation in the World Council of Churches, and twice the Pope replied firmly that Rome could not collaborate religiously with any group that puts the Catholic Church on the same level as other creeds...
Born. To Max Adenauer, 45, son of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and Gisela Klein Adenauer: the Chancellor's 16th grandchild; in Cologne, West Germany. Name: Ursula...