Word: heidelberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there were also signs that the colonel had a secret army of undeclared supporters among G.I. husbands. And he got overt aid from his superiors at the U.S. Army's European headquarters in Heidelberg, which is considering whether to make Dilley's decree the official policy for all U.S. posts in occupied Germany. The way some women dress abroad, said an Army spokesman, "has adversely affected the best interests of the United States...
...recipients are Walter D. MacNeal '54, Calvin O. Schrag Div., and Irwin E. Lane 4G, MacNeal will study Classics at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Schrag will study Philosophy of Religion at the University of Heidelberg, and Lane will study Biology at the University of Munich...
...Clockmaker, which came from a private collection in Heidelberg and has never before been shown in the U.S., was bought by the Guggenheim's trustees on the advice of the museum's new director, James Johnson Sweeney, a knowledgeable critic and an energetic man-about-museums (he has arranged exhibitions in Venice, Paris, London and Sao Paulo, served as Director of Painting and Sculpture for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art). When Sweeney took over the Guggenheim 18 months ago, it was a cultish temple of nonobjective art. Its paintings were mainly second-rate German abstractions which...
Most disturbing of the three is Jean Stafford's expertly written A Winter's Tale. With its prewar Heidelberg setting (where Author Stafford was once a student), its subtle mixture of Nazi erosion, false piety and neurotic love, this is not a story for those who want happy endings. Domineering Frau Professor Gait is hated not only by her husband and her young American visitor, but by her young lover as well. To the American girl who takes the lover away briefly before he goes on military maneuvers, he seems at once preoccupied, cruel and dead inside...
ROGER LINCOLN SHINN Professor of Philosophy and Religion Heidelberg College Tiffin, Ohio...