Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undoubtedly read most of the 7,000 military books in his library. He likes cheap fiction, often reads himself to sleep with typical Wild West stories by a German named Karl May, who has never been in the U.S. In a book on diet, Vegetarian Hitler penciled this marginal note: "Cows were meant to give milk, oxen for drawing loads...
...Cheung Mui, of Columbia, and Karl Beran of Prague's English College relieve the theoretical atmosphere with repertorial articles that are ample reply to any charges of "hot air" that may be levelled against this post-war forum. The active anti-Nazi cooperation of Czech and Polish students, as well as the fear of Oriental liberals of the native reactionaries who may oppress them when the foreign oppressors leave, is not well known, but certainly worth knowing...
...Karl Baedeker's son Fritz catalogued Britain for future tourist generations with the same 19th-Century Teutonic thoroughness his father had lavished on the rest of Europe. But few British cathedrals, Christopher Wren churches or public monuments rated the final cachet of Baedekerian approval -two asterisks. Salisbury Cathedral did, but the Houses of Parliament got only...
...group. To him a balanced power is fairer than any World Federation which would be simply a disguise for Anglo-American hegemony. One need not be a Utopian, however, to feel that Spykman's world order excludes any finite goal, any emotional appeal, or any basis for action. Even Karl Marx, after all, had to postulate a goal in which his discouraging dialectic no longer worked...
...Karl Vietor, for the preparation of a book on Goethe's philosophy...