Word: karle
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Born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, the illegitimate son of a Liibeck shopgirl, he was raised by his grandfather to be a fervent blue-collar socialist. In 1933, to escape arrest by the Gestapo, he changed his name to Willy Brandt and fled to Scandinavia. In Norway and Sweden, his doctrinaire socialism was mellowed by experience of the more pragmatic Scandinavian brand...
White Man's Opiate. Dr. Karl Deissler, medical director of Synanon, thinks that methadone alone deprives its users of the will to deal with the problems that led them into drugs. Hassan Jeru-Ahmed, who runs the Black Man's Development Center in Washington, D.C., shares that skepticism. Describing methadone as a "white man's opiate," he uses it to ease withdrawal, not for maintenance. Other critics question the wisdom of allowing an individual to remain dependent upon any drug...
...trait he symbolizes to everyone, however, is freedom-his own freedom as an artist, all men's freedom to live their own lives. Beethoven's loftiest hymn to that core symbol is Fidelio, which today has a special pertinence to those European countries, as Austrian Conductor Karl Böhm puts it, "that experienced foreign occupation and domination within the recent past." Thus it was thoroughly proper that the Met's new Fidelio was entrusted largely to Europeans, Böhm included...
Joining Harvard's four players on the first team were Penn forwards Stan Startzell and Tom Lieberman, Brown fullbacks Chip Young and Karl Ohaus, Cornell's Herard LaForest, and Renery and Sanzo...
Western industry long ago disproved Karl Marx's prediction that the workingman would become ever poorer in a capitalistic state. But it has yet to prove wrong his less well remembered forecast that workers would become progressively more alienated from their jobs. The young people now entering the factories present an opportunity for employers to end that alienation. Blue collar youngsters are as eager as the college students to become involved and to genuinely earn the pay and leisure that they seek. Essentially it is the task of management to give them that chance. As it is, the alienation...