Word: ist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army, reports Author Collier, suffered more from gastric ulcers, scabies and venereal disease than it did from German bullets. Even in the famed Guards regiments, few of the hastily called-up reservists had seen, much less fired, a shot in anger until their first encounter with the Germans. The ist Armored Division arrived at the Western Front with mockup plywood tanks; another unit had six mobile movie houses, but only a handful of obsolete antitank weapons...
...join their machine gun unit to replace a man whose absence would expose the soldiers as temple robbers. Given the missing man's identification card, he becomes a ferocious super-hero who captures a mountain fort with five idiots. Anyone can be molded; no one is unique: Mann ist mann. (The dangers of attempting to preserve individuality are presented by another character, Sergeant Bloody Five: to remain himself, he is forced to castrate himself...
...currently conceived, is not Mann ist mann. But it is a rollicking noisy and important show. Do see it of course--but, oh yes, do, also, if you can, avoid rehersals
...lobby of the building, puffing furiously on his pipe. Salan shivered from the cold. His wife kissed Salan, tied a white silk scarf around his neck, helped him into a trench coat and buttoned him up like a child. The two men walked out to a convoy of the ist Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment, climbed into trucks with their troopers and drove off into the night...
...collection. Three paintings never before seen in the U.S. share and contribute to the gentle aura that pervades the whole. Cubist Georges Braque calmly analyzes an end table littered with fruit and knick-knacks in a brown and green oil lent by Art Patron Mrs. Louise Smith. Industrial ist Alex Lewyt lent Pierre Bonnard's landscape of a country byway. Former Ambassador John Hay Whitney contributed Vuillard's rosy-hued canvas of a young woman relaxing at her embroidery...