Word: karle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much earlier novelist than Karl May sparked the German "love affair" with our American West. He was H.B. Möllhausen, an artist-naturalist who in 1857-58 accompanied Lieut. Joseph C. Ives on the first Colorado River expedition. Möllhausen returned to Germany to become a popular novelist who recaptured the American West from his own experiences. May perhaps resembles Zane Grey, but Möllhausen was actually compared to James Fenimore Cooper...
...prospect of overheated patrons hardly heartens restaurant, movie-house and theater managers. "My customers have been coming to the restaurant to get out of the hot kitchen," says Harry Klingeman, owner of The Indian Trail restaurant in Winnetka, Ill. "They are purchasing comfort." Karl Goedereis, manager of the expensive Houston restaurant Charley's 517, has a different kind of worry. "We'll have to let people in with T shirts," he sighs. "The class of the restaurant will go down...
...Essen, a crowd of 2,500, who had paid up to $131 a ticket, watched dumbfounded as West German Boxer George Butzbach put the puffing champ on the ropes with a series of sharp counterpunches. A winded Ali never did finish another match with former European Champion Karl Mildenberger. As they said after World War II, All's ka-putt in Deutschland...
When Rome fell, vacations and the tourist trade went into a slump that lasted in Western Europe for a thousand years. The medieval traveler making his way from one feudal barony to another navigated in hostile passages, always uncertain of refuge, as if a gargoyle Karl Maiden flapped after him, haunting him with visions of disaster. Some people setting off on vacation this season must believe that they have now arrived at a 20th century equivalent: a late Sunday afternoon on the American open road, the long procession of gas stations relentlessly shut down and the gauge's needle...
Reading International on Brattle St. was a haven for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as they wrote the famous anthem. Paperback Booksmith, which is "dedicated to the fine art of browsing," is the Bermuda Triangle of Brattle Square-people don't buy books there, they just disappear...