Word: karle
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Cohen was relentless in his research. He traveled to Darwin's library in Kent, England to examine the copy of Das Kapital that Karl Marx presented to the naturalist. Revolutions in Science is the culmination of a lifetime of serious, inspired scholarship--and the results show...
Once one of your ideas it treated this ways, perhaps you can imagine how Karl Marx would feel if he saw how his ideas are treated in the University. They were meant to encourage revolution--but somehow they have been made acceptable by being presented as menu items on the food-for-thought list. Learn all about feminism, Marxism, and liberation theology--but beware of taking them seriously; you never know who'll laugh at you. Harvard is full of Cabbage Patch Radicals--most people don't really take them seriously, but they invite a couple of Cabbage Patch Radicals...
DIED. Philip Scharper, 65, editor in chief at Sheed & Ward (1957-69), then co-founder of Orbis Books, who brought U.S. readers the works of influential European and Third World Roman Catholic thinkers, including Hans Kung, Karl Rahner, Edward Schillebeeckx, Liberation Theologians Leonardo Boff and Gustavo Gutierrez; following a stroke; in North Tarrytown...
After disappearing from Germany in 1949, Mengele is believed to have gone through Italy to Argentina, where he took up residence in Buenos Aires and began to represent the family firm, Karl Mengele & Sons, a manufacturer of agricultural equipment (the firm is still run by Mengele's family in Gunzburg). Around this time, he is said to have met Alfredo Stroessner, the grandson of a Bavarian cavalry officer, who seized power in Paraguay in 1954. When a Frankfurt court issued an order for Mengele's arrest in 1959, he fled to Paraguay to avoid extradition...
...about a Soviet farmer who claims his potato crop is so abundant "it reaches to the foot of God." When a visiting commissar reminds the farmer that "there is no God," the local replies, "There aren't any potatoes either." Gonzalez responded with the one about Karl Marx returning from the grave and going on TV in Moscow to say, "Workers of the world--forgive me!" The First Lady let her hair down as well. During a visit to Madrid's School of Dramatic Arts and Dance, she was persuaded to join some young pupils in the flamenco. Said...