Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popularized: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is therefore the superior of capital, and deserves much higher consideration." But he also quoted Lincoln's answer to Karl Marx: "Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. . . . Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own will be safe when...
Jules Romains was duped by some of his friends. Others simply became realists. In the end the only Man of Good Will left in Europe was Romains himself, and he scuttled for the U. S. Strategist Karl von Clausewitz said: "War is the continuation of politics by other means." If war is only one incident in a battle of political action, Jules Romains wasted his energy trying to avoid a skirmish while the battle passed...
Among Emil Nolde's fellow German "degenerates," Oskar Kokoschka escaped to London, Satirist George Grosz settled and calmed down in the U. S., Ernst Kirchner died of tuberculosis in exile. Karl Hofer, onetime Carnegie International prize winner is still in Germany, has been forbidden to paint. Artist Nolde, now 73, is still in Germany too. But he gets along very well. He is a Nazi Party member. Although he is officially banned, he paints what he likes, sells it while Nazis look the other way. Reason: Hermann Göring collects Nolde paintings...
Christian crosses spring from Buddhist lotus-flower bases at Dr. Karl Ludwig Reichelt's red-roofed Tao Fong Shan mission high above lovely Shatin Valley near Hong Kong. That fusion of symbols suits the earnest, persuasive Norwegian missionary. His object is to teach Buddhist monks Christianity in a familiar setting, make them converts to take Christianity to millions of other Buddhists. The Nazi Blitzkrieg last spring cut off funds from Norway and Denmark which have long financed Missionary Reichelt. But his work will go on. U. S. Lutherans have rallied to his support, as they have to 37 other...
...parts of London which almost made a poet of that restless German dullard, Karl Baedeker, last week fell under a blanket of wrath. Buildings which were standing two centuries before Berlin was even founded were cracked, gutted, undermined. Names of heroes and works of great memory were trampled...