Word: karle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more strongly than the pleasant spa of Bad Kreuznach (pop. 33,000) in Rhineland-Palatinate. In Bad Kreuznach's ornate Kurhaus, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg planned German operations on the Western Front during the last two years of World War I; from the same building, Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt directed the Wehrmacht's withdrawal from France in World War II. Last week in the salon of the Kurhaus, France's Charles de Gaulle, who fought the Germans in both wars, raised a glass of good Rhine wine and toasted West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...huskies!", brought to us by Quaker Oats, the cereal shot from guns. We remember the sidekicks: Vic, Tank Tinker, Jim and Penny and Clipper. We remember the villains; the Gray Ghost, Dr. Martelli, the secret agents with German accents, who called one another Klaus and Fritz and Karl. There were, of course, comic books, and we are not unfamiliar with Superman, Batman and Robin, or the Plastic Man. But mostly we listened, and imagined...
...Lest They Forget Re your footnote comments on Queen Elizabeth's German ancestry | Nov. 1: of German testl are our Eisenhower, Can ada's Diefenbaker. But the Russians are really outdoing us and the English. They fired the Lord Himself and gave the job to the German Karl Marx, who replaced the Bible with Das Kapital...
...fact that the Lyric Opera's orchestra is a competent but far from first-rate pickup group. But he kindled a performance of ravishing warmth and coloration, better by far than anything previously heard from the Lyric Opera's pit. With Soprano Birgit Nilsson as Isolde, Tenor Karl Liebl as Tristan, and Mezzo Grace Hoffman as Brangaene, Rodzinski shaped a youthfully vibrant production, as remarkable for its knotted dramatic tensions as it was for its moments of shadowed repose...
...projects range throughout the curriculum, from American studies to Zoology. This year, for example, papers are being written on such diverse subjects as the later poetry of Yeats, the sociological and psychological aspects of war, Central Rhodesian federation, Karl Kraus (a Viennese journalist), and Morroccan nationalism; one Scholar is writing short stories. As Yale sorely lacks a plethora of creative writing courses, many prospective writers have taken advantage of the program to test their capabilities; in fact, there have usually been more than one creative writer in the program...