Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the German leaders met with the three Military Governors in the ex-SHAEF war room in Frankfurt's big Headquarters Building. After six turbulent hours, General Clay emerged with a broad smile. Said he: "It's all settled." He specified: "There are no remaining differences either between Germans or ourselves or between the German political parties...
Clay and Murphy hope that the constitution for the "Federal Republic of Germany" will go to the eleven West German states for ratification by May 15. In the face of Russian maneuvers, the Western Allies and the Western Germans at last presented a united front...
...Paris, after some difficulty, decided in favor of Venus, bristled with Gothic touches. Cranach had presented fast-stepping Mercury with an iron-grey beard, a studious look and a crystal ball instead of a golden apple. He had dressed Paris in the ponderous armor and plumed hat of a German prince, gave him an insufferably arrogant and calculating...
Fair: Poor. The first postwar German trade fair in the U.S., sponsored by the Allied Military Government, finished its 16-day stand in Manhattan. Orders were heaviest for china ($250,000), office machinery ($120,000) and cameras and optical instruments ($100,000). Total business was a low $1,200,000, but the Germans hoped the sample orders would eventually bring many more...
...response to being alive. Descartes, who titillated the 17th Century intellectual world, thought he was creating a new philosophy on St. Augustine's premise: "I think, therefore I am." Sartre's fundamental observation, an overstatement of something found in the writings of Kierkegaard and the German existentialist, Heidegger, may be paraphrased as "I exist and find it sickening." The experience recounted in Nausea is one of deep physical and metaphysical horror, well beyond the ennui, already sufficiently sick, that such French post-romantic writers as Baudelaire liked to wallow...