Word: lederhosen
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...itself is the subject most painstakingly studied. Field trips-to Rome for art and architecture, to Berlin for political science-fill in the outlines of classroom lectures. Three-day weekends during the summer and fall allow long freelance forays. "There was." according to one report, "a definite trend to Lederhosen" Wrote Friedrich W. Strothmann, head of Stanford's modern languages department and, with General Studies Chairman Robert A. Walker, originator of the Landgut Burg school: the students typically "hop on a motorcycle Thursday afternoon and come back Sunday from Venice and Salzburg after having seen a Mozart opera...
...this vacation summer, nearly all the scars of war and memory seem to have faded. Occasionally a Frenchman will take malicious delight in giving a German the wrong directions, or a Dutchman will leave a café when it fills up with tourists in Lederhosen and Tyrolean hats. In Yugoslavia the Germans are welcome, if only because they assist Yugoslavia's acutely short consumer-goods market by selling their belongings as they go along. Observed an elderly Serb in Belgrade: "Germans can cross the border with a normal amount of personal belongings, spend a month here and return without...
...sack suit as Claridge's and the Dorchester. The harsh accents of Sydney and Melbourne bounced almost unnoticed off the walls of pubs. Scots sextons helped citizens of Canada and the U.S. track down ancestors in their own quiet graveyards, while hairy German legs bristled stoutly beneath their Lederhosen at the changing of the guard at Buckingham or St. James's Palace. Headwaiters were busy guiding visiting Frenchmen through the mysteries of an English menu -which in virtually every good London restaurant is printed in what is presumed to be French...
...quest of East-West unity ("we must take , the Russians at their word") have scared off many followers, Maier is an old-style anticlerical German "liberal," paunchy, frugal and folksy. He is a Swabian who likes nothing ,better than to walk the Württemberg slopes in clodhopper shoes, Lederhosen and hairy loden-cloth jacket, stopping now and again to exchange light-heavyweight jokes with farmers...
...faced a second-string opposition. Since the death of Kurt Schumacher, the fanatic and brilliant orator, the powerful Social.Democratic Party is presided over by mild Erich Ollenhauer, a sort of chubby Clement Attlee in Lederhosen. The Socialists' principal attack on Adenauer's record: that not enough of West Germany's prosperity trickles down to the workers, that Adenauer's pro-American foreign policy prejudices the chance for a reunified Germany...