Word: lenk
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...summary can suggest Toynbee's range. But his study of renaissances, those recurring attempts of civilizations to recapture their lost youth, is a good example. Charlemagne tried to snatch back features of Hellenism, and Timur Lenk tried to raise the ghost of the Cairene 'Abbasid Caliphate, neither with success. In literature, 15th century Humanism tried to revive the writing of Latin verse only to see the "vulgar" and more virile Western literature sweep Europe. Toynbee includes the Crusades among the "renaissances" that failed, a deplorable attempt to reach "religious goals by military short cuts." In effect, Toynbee...
When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia back in 1939, Hans Lenk's world was washed from beneath him. In the years after World War I-during which he served as a captain in the Austro-Hungarian army-he had built up a prosperous export business in Carlsbad. But the Nazis, busily stripping Jews of their fortunes, sent him to the Dachau concentration camp, then released him and told him to get out of the country-or else...
...Jewish Hospital at Denver and this winter, his TB arrested, he arrived in Kansas City. Friends saw to it that special bills for permanent residence were introduced in both the Senate and the House, but Congress did nothing about either. Last week, 60 years old and almost penniless, Hans Lenk was beginning to lose hope at last. Unless Congress acted, he would have to leave the country in less than a month and start all over again the whole slow and painful task of trying to become an American...