Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another problem is the Common Market's agricultural subsidies, which are rigged to keep farm prices uniform in all six member countries. Because the subsidies are computed in dollars, a shift in exchange rates would automatically raise or lower the income of farmers in EEC countries. If the Germans increased the value of the mark by 5%, for example, German farmers would lose at least $250 million a year because the prices of their products would have to be cut by 5%. The subsidy deals are scheduled for renegotiation by 1970. That timetable could be changed but, whatever...
...wrangle over Death of a President), his book is the first full-scale account of the Krupps to appear in the U.S. Trying to cope with the complex history of one of the world's richest and strangest families, Manchester inevitably circles back to the origins of the German nation and finally weaves into his narrative much of the history of Germany from 1870 to the present...
...Britain's Vickers company to make Krupp time fuses, provided that Vickers paid him one shilling threepence per shell fired. In the turmoil of trench warfare, the shell count was forgotten. But after the bloody defeat, Gustav calculated that the British owed him 60 marks for every dead German soldier. He billed Vickers so, but settled for one-sixth as much as he asked...
...Manchester, the Krupps are the personification of German power. He lumps them both together and finds both guilty. He never really grapples with the ultimate and painfully intricate question - of whether the Krupps and weapons makers generally are a cause or a byproduct of military nationalism. Do they make policy, or simply profit from it? In bringing the question of German culpability up to date, Manchester neglects to mention that most West Germans were born after 1933. Though they bear no guilt for the past, they show grave concern over the profound moral issues raised by the manufacture of weapons...
Cabaret--This musical about the degeneration of German society just before the Nazi era has lost Joel Grey and much of its luster during the long run. But Lotte Lenya is back in the cast, and there's no justification for missing her no matter what she's doing. At the BROADWAY, Broadway at 53rd...