Word: lichtenberger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particular were outspoken foes of the regime. Clemens Cardinal von Galen of Miinster denounced the Nazis' euthanasia program from the pulpit, halting, at least for a time, the mass murder of feeble-minded and spastic children. After calling upon his congregation to pray for the Jews, Father Bernhard Lichtenberg, dean of Berlin's St. Hedwig Cathedral, was sent to his death at Dachau. The gifted Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer joined the conservative anti-Nazi movement as early as 1935, was executed moments before liberation...
...Catholic intellectuals who met secretly at the home of Protestant Layman Helmuth von Moltke to plan for the reconstruction of post-Hitler Germany along Christian and democratic lines. Arrested after the failure of the plot against Hitler, Delp was hanged seven months later. Another saintly priest was Provost Bernhard Lichtenberg of Berlin, who was imprisoned and ultimately deported to Dachau after praying for the Jews at St. Hedwig's Cathedral...
...forces the eye off the page and into the contemplative middle distance; it takes a moment's time to decide whether the author has skewered a truth or merely shaken it up. The collectors have selected from the great aphorists such as G. K. Chesterton and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, but also from such little-known men of perception as Claude Bernard and the late Cesare Pavese...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 elected its officers for 1960-61 last Tuesday. The new president is Thomas L. Delbanco '61, of Kirkland House and Larchmont, New York. Vice-president is Thomas S. Bodenheimer '61, of Kirkland House and Salt Lake City, Utah; secretary, James L. Lichtenberg '62, of Kirkland House and Washington D.C.; and treasurer, Robert C. Kogan '62, of Kirkland House and New Rochelle, New York...
...There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books." wrote Georg Lichtenberg, an 18th century German aphorist. "Printed by people who don't understand them, sold by people who don't understand them, bound, criticized, and read by people who don't understand them, and now even written by people who don't understand them." A look at the current bestseller list (see p. 84) gives Lichtenberg the air of a prophet. The fiction crop is one of the poorest in years. Items...