Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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German travelers hurrying through Frankfurt's bustling Rhein-Main airport stopped in surprise last week as the loudspeaker boomed: "Lufthansa flight from Hamburg to Munich has just arrived." Then most of them rushed to the big waiting-room window and looked out onto the field. There a light-blue Lufthansa Convair, with the familiar eagle painted on its nose, taxied in, completing the first scheduled test run for the line. Germany had her wings back...
...fighting day for the whole nation" in the cities of the Eastern zone. A delegation of "East German mothers" arrived in Bonn and joined a crowd of Ruhr rowdies who paraded around chanting, "Adenauer is following in Hitler's footsteps-throw him out." The Socialist trade unions of Munich turned out 25,000 members carrying banners with the slogan: "We don't want to die for dollars or rubles...
...married Renata Nordio, a classmate of his at Florence and a student of Spanish literature. But by that time Mussolini was already in power, and the intellectual atmosphere was getting somewhat unhealthy. In 1938 he won a Litt. D. from the University of Rome, but it was Munich time in Germany, so the Poggiolis fled to the United States...
...Atlantic together on their way to give addresses at Clark University in Worcester. Mass., Freud and Jung debated endlessly on psychological problems and analyzed each other's dreams. Freud cast Jung in the role of his intellectual son and heir. But the halcyon days were over. At Munich in 1912, Freud upbraided Jung for writing about psychoanalysis without mentioning the founder's name. The talk turned to Egypt's King Amenhotep IV as founder of a religion. "He is the one who scratched out his father's name on the monuments," said Freud. "Yes." Jung replied...
Skewers & Old Lace. Dr. Claribel was an early feminist and a pioneer female medical graduate (although she never practiced). She sailed boldly through life, swathed in ankle-length dresses and huge Spanish shawls, topped off with Hindu skewers in her coiffure. Once, at the opera in Munich, Kaiser Wilhelm II offered Dr. Claribel his arm, on the assumption that she was a duchess. In art, Dr. Claribel's choices included Matisse's early Blue Nude (1907) and Cézanne's monumental Mont Ste Victoire. In sharp contrast, soft-spoken Miss Etta, an accomplished pianist and lover...