Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is taking place in Poland today is the last tragic chapter in the noble history of Polish Jewry. From early in the 12th century, when German Jews sought new homes there because of persecution by the Crusaders, to the present day,' Jews have contributed much to the economic development and culture of that country. Their only reward has been a life of suffering at the hands of Poland's infamously anti-Semitic population...
After 24 composers-including Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen-had signed a petition on his behalf, Yun was allowed to resume composing behind bars. The Bonn government, angered by Seoul's cloak-and-dagger tactics on German soil, threatened to suspend its $25 million program of economic aid. South Korea first reduced Yun's stiff sentence to 15 years, then to ten, and last month decided to free him. He is expected to leave for Germany next month...
...pays his utility bills. On weekends, the executive can relax at one of the firm's winter or summer retreats. Once a year he may choose to recuperate at Baden-Baden or some other spa, imbibing mineral waters and immersing himself in medicinal mud at company expense. Other German executives annually are given blank airline tickets for themselves and their wives. They may fill out the tickets for "business" trips to any place they care to visit...
...works of Franz Kafka have been translated into every major language-except that of cinema. Orson Welles' film version of The Trial failed to crack the surface of bureaucratic terror and reveal the author's psychological insights. German Director Rudolf Noelte's adaptation of The Castle, Kafka's last, incomplete parable, fares little better...
...unconvincing argument. No matter how we hide it, it is the fags--and the fags alone--whom we are deriding. That's how audiences work. A few years ago, the musical Cabaret learned something similar during its Boston tryout. One mock love song between the ghoulish and decadent German emcee and a fake gorilla ended with the emcee assuring us, "And if you could see her through my eyes, she wouldn't look Jewish at all!" Immediately we laughed. Brilliant! The audience had been forced into the anti-Semitic posture the play was attacking. Except, maybe that didn't make...