Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nazis met a tough opponent in a husky, square-jawed youth named Herbert Karl Frahm, a member of the Socialist youth club. The son of an unmarried shopgirl whose lover had deserted her before the child's birth, Herbert Karl and his mother lived as boarders in the home of a chauffeur whose own wife had little patience with the child. Perhaps to compensate for his unhappy circumstances, the boy excelled at school, winning a scholarship to the Lübeck gymnasium, and developed an abiding interest in politics. Because of his lower-class
...similar poll conducted today might show that many more would be willing to stay at home and work at changing the country. To be sure, there are free love communes in West Berlin, pot-smokers and hippies in most large cities, but the mood of the young is, by and large, activist. Significantly, Nobel prizewinning Novelist Hermann Hesse no longer exerts a strong pull on young West Germans. To them, Hesse's romantic mystique of the outsider and his preoccupation with passive Oriental philosophies has about it what British Critic D. J. Enright calls "the smell of metaphysical Lederhosen." Hesse...
...represented in a considerably higher degree by the National Liberation Front than by the U.S. and its allied juntas." Swedes in general oppose the war, but the manner of Palme's gesture blew up a storm. Conservative Swedes were furious (red), and the American ambassador was summoned home for "consultations." No successor has yet been named. Later, Palme adopted a low silhouette; realizing that Erlander was contemplating quitting and that the top job was within reach, he cut back on his TV exposure, tidied up his once sloppy style of dress, even tamed his cowlick...
...further puzzle was the absence from the celebration of those Politburo members who are headquartered outside Peking. Did continuing unrest in the provinces keep them close to home? Nobody was sure-and that is perhaps the most striking thing about Communist China as it begins its third decade. Though it is the world's most populous nation, it has drawn so tight a curtain around itself that virtually nothing of its present policies, personnel and problems is known for certain...
...does not usually buy dependable friends." Then why give at all? On the simplest level, the report stated, "it is only right for those who have to share with those who have not." Then again, the report notes, "we live in a village world," where concern with problems at home and abroad is becoming "a political and social imperative." Strongest of all is the pragmatic argument that aid-fostered development will help increase world trade, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike...