Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Karl Heinz Neumann joined the Nazi Party early in 1930 because, as he said, "I saw it coming." He quickly rose to the post of Oberaufsichtsrat in a munitions plant. His wife became house warden, later a block warden, of the Frauenschajt, the Nazi women's organization...
...rise of Western philosophy from Thales (B.C. 640) to Philosopher Russell. It also discusses great religions (Greek polytheism, Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism) and a number of thinkers whom philosophers do not consider philosophers but whose thought and actions have been important to man's mind (St. Francis, St. Benedict, Karl Marx, Machiavelli, Byron). There are expositions of great books, Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Spinoza's Ethics, and the History is almost as full of poems as an anthology...
...year of victory and threatening peace, the poets were not up to much. The biggest news was made by two soldier-poets, Frenchman Louis Aragon, and Ser geant Karl Shapiro...
...Karl Shapiro's 2,072-line Essay on Rime was written in the Pacific, without access to books. Modest in tone but ambitious in purpose, it is the effort of a talented poet to keep writing in the midst of a war. But it is a disturbing indication of what poetry (and its readers) have come to, that the publication of this work was widely regarded as an important event. The poem contains many unexceptionable and not too generally recognized ideas and statements ("dialectic is the foe of poetry"). But it contains little that is not self-evident...
Boston's delegation was headed by Governor Maurice J. Tobin, armored in black coat and striped pants. His colleague, tweedy President Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made the committee sit up by announcing that both A.F. of L. and C.I.O. locals had promised that "there will be no strikes of their members in connection with any work done for the United Nations Organization in the Boston area." Compton also pointed out Boston's library facilities...