Word: heil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage with politicians and writers. The results, he remembers, were sometimes quite startling. "One politician began shouting that 'the film is an insult to my English comrades in arms who fought bravely against us, at which point the students in the audience began chanting 'Sieg Heil!' in unison." Such outbursts were the sweet sounds of success for Lester. "Getting these points of view out in the open," he says, "is exactly why we made the movie...
...thing a group of about 50 Harvard and Radcliffe students came inside after an hour-long demonstration in the freezing cold and heckled the Sing-Out performers mercilessly. They yelled "Fascist!" and "Heil, Hitler!" and worse, especially during the the closing speech of national program director John Sayre. Sayre, a former Olympic gold medal winner in rowing, was visibly shaken by the harrassment. He called it "the worst, most persistent, and loudest heckling we've ever drawn anywhere in the world." That bothered Heikki...
...make money? No doubt, but he also did it to make propaganda. Editing the facts of life in modern Germany to fit an evident prejudice, Pinter blandly but incessantly insinuates that all Germans are still Nazis at heart and can hardly wait to go to heil again...
...hours later, more than a thousand demonstrators materialized on the lawn under his hotel window carrying placards that could not be answered this side of sanity: HEIL LYNDON, said one; JOHNSON is HITLER'S GRANDSON? asked another. Egged on by leaders of a Communist-front group called Kabataang Makabayan, the demonstration dissolved into a rock-throwing riot, and before it ended, 20 protesters had been carted off in patrol wagons and a dozen in ambulances...
...Last week the German Dancing Teachers Association offered its suggestions on proper conduct. The teachers recommended clapping and cries of "Königin Elizabeth," with curtsying as "optional." Just in case a relative of the Kaisers might induce any other anachronisms, the association nervously suggested that "the word 'Heil' as an expression of joy should be avoided for reasons of tact...