Word: karle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From his aerie in Switzerland, hawk-eyed Karl Barth, 72, Europe's most prestigious Protestant theologian, peers coolly at the Christian West. Last week U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, 66, glared right back. In the Christian Century, Niebuhr sharply answered Barth's latest anti-West pronouncement-a 45-page pamphlet addressed to an anonymous pastor in East Germany who had asked for spiritual guidance...
Surprised at the uproar, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, an old schoolteacher himself, said he wrote in the oaths provision because "it would be the height of absurdity to make funds available to Communists or saboteurs under the heading of national defense." He conceded that Communists would not hesitate to take the oath, said that if they did so, at least they would be guilty of breach of contract. In Congress the oaths are gathering enemies. Three bills to repeal them were introduced in the House. And in the Senate, Massachusetts' John Kennedy, who co-sponsored...
Still, there are moments when the hard-digging moviemakers strike it fairly rich. There are a couple of good fights, and a lynching bee in which the many-legged mob moves with the terrifying instinctual coordination and single-mindlessness of a colossal millipede gone mad. Karl Maiden makes a memorably silly-sinister billy goat. Actress Schell, holding a hard rein on her sentimental excesses, gives a gracious, intelligent performance. And though Actor Cooper, when required to produce the piercingly analytic stare, can do no more than push out his chin and look as though he is about to whinny...
More than 20 years ago, Austrian-born Dr. Karl von Frisch discovered that bees communicate by dancing on the honeycomb. Last week his pupil, Dr. Wolfgang Steche, 38, of Bonn's Institute for Bee Science, explained that he had learned to speak a little of the bees' language...
...Dostoevsky, Camus broods about the ailment of freedom without God, about political mass murder in the name of life and the future. Although he has been unable to accept Dostoevsky's remedy (return to God and the soil), he says: "The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx...