Word: hittorf
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...question -- never fully answered that evening -- will recur, along with related themes, over a 1988 Riesling, as the talk stretches into the early morning hours. The seven have seen little of one another since their graduation in 1956 from the Hittorf Gymnasium, a prep school in Recklinghausen (pop. 123,000), where the industrial Ruhr melds into the rich farmland of Westphalia. The reunion, prompted by the visit of a journalist classmate living in New York City, provides a perfect opportunity to catch up. Here with intensity, there with a curious lack of passion, their talk at Niehues' home in Recklinghausen...
Eleven voices out of a class of 20 hardly amount to a representative sample: after all, the class of '56 included no women -- though Hittorf is now coeducational -- and, by the standards of the '50s, its members belonged to an educational elite. But their opinions -- serious, measured -- and their lives -- steady, prosperous -- do reflect the country they helped shape and that in turn shaped them. Raised in rubble, they went on to bridge and rebuild: youngsters touched by the fury of World War II; adolescents molded by the struggle out of the ruins; adults rewarded with stability, their lives dominated...
| 1 |