Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national executive committee the year Hitler took over. Hitler, like Bismarck before him, suppressed the party. After twelve years' exile in Czechoslovakia, France and wartime Britain, Ollenhauer was one of three surviving leaders who met to rebuild the party in 1946. He swung behind the fiery nationalist Kurt Schumacher against Otto Grotewohl's plan to merge with the Communists (Grotewohl wound up as Premier of Communist East Germany), succeeded to the top job on Schumacher's death in 1952. Schumacher, whose health was crushed in the concentration camps, was a man of hatreds and excitement; Ollenhauer...
...federal government is resolved to support the policy of the U.S.," he proclaimed. "We neither want nor intend to risk losing their cooperation and support by carrying out experiments." Kurt Kiesinger, Christian Democrat chairman of the Bundestag foreign-affairs committee, took another hour and a half to recommend sticking close to the U.S., as the policy that gave Adenauer's party its smashing election victory four years...
...markedly different guise of The Threepenny Opera, some of the same characters have long delighted theater audiences. Both the musical play, with a brilliant score by Brecht's friend Kurt Weill, and Brecht's novel stem from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728). The novel was curiously ignored by U.S. reviewers when it appeared in translation in 1938 as A Penny for the Poor, possibly because its turn-of-the-century London setting scarcely conformed to the modish social-protest patterns of the '30s. Social protest the book certainly...
Karpovich, Kurt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, had originally planned to discuss only the effects of de-Stalinization, but he extended his remarks to include the present crises...
With Christoff, the trouble began during the first orchestral rehearsal. The trouble: no Christoff. He was sulking in stubborn silence in his dressing room, apparently because he did not like Leo Kerz's stage design. Twenty minutes later, Director Kurt Herbert Adler had moved some furniture and props-Christoff likes to play in profile instead of facing the audience-and the rehearsal went on. The actual performance was given in a strange melange of heavy, traditional furniture and Kerz's stark, modern setting, framed in 14 big, black, red-tipped vertical daggers; neither set nor performance...