Word: kultured
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...high level of government service cannot be maintained. Traditionally underpaid Civil Service employees will not be able to suffer their static promotion system when the F.B.I. also tells them what they must think. With every position in jeopardy, the Civil Service is faced with the possibility of an extensive Kultur purge that will substitute political wheelhorses for expert, but supposedly unfit officials...
Beware the Weak. Malaparte says he dined with German Governor General Hans Frank at his Warsaw palace, heard him extol German Kultur, play Chopin with delicacy, later that same night saw him use a live child for target practice while the women of the party giggled. Says Malaparte: "In no part of Europe had the Germans appeared to me so naked, so exposed as in Poland. In the course of my long war experience, the conviction had grown within me that...
Always a good German, Strauss has been an on-again-off-again friend of the Nazis. Last June, he publicly snapped his fingers at Hitler's threat to cancel his birthday celebration, said: "It was not I who started the war" (TIME, July 17). Even then, the Kultur-conscious Nazis, considering his prestige valuable to Germany, let him be. As the war approached his doorstep, the aged composer continued to cultivate his musical garden...
...Eivind Berggrav was elevated to the diocese of Oslo, the primacy of Norway. Already widely known at home as editor of the magazine Kirke og Kultur (Church and Culture) and writer of a number of religious books in addition to the best-selling Spenningèns Land (an account of his life in the Arctic), he soon achieved world fame in the Universal Church movement. In 1938 he was elected president of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches...
...Americans will blush to think that this is the reception we accord distinguished European artists, and that the grossness of Mr. Moses is the measure of our understanding of city planning." Cried one Bernard Mazel: "[Moses' article] sounded like one of Nazi Germany's racial discussions of Kultur filled with references to 'refugee,' 'foreigners,' . . . only omitting the phrase, 'Why don't they go back where they came from...