Word: municheer
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...Bloch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. He shared the award with Feodor Lynen, a biochemist from Munich. The men received the prize "for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism," according to the transcript of the award presentation speech...
Harvard Square's Oktoberfest yesterday wasn't exactly Munich, but still served up music, food and street performers for the 50,000 revelers...
...Spitzer is plainly a noble and lovable human being, and the viewer is struck not only by the senselessness of his death but also by the honor and courage with which he and his colleagues conducted themselves in the face of death. The Munich Olympiad was sandwiched between two bloody wars in which the Jewish state fought for its survival, and its athletes and coaches were clearly part of a nation prepared for war. Confronted by armed men speaking Arabic, they appear to immediately understand the situation and some are even able to quickly make tactical choices - such...
...from our very first encounter with al Gashey on screen, it's hard to ignore the sense that it was the narrative of his own life that landed him in Munich on that fateful day, guarding the downstairs doorway to the apartment housing the Israelis as his comrades went upstairs to begin the siege. Counterposed with images of Spitzer's happy wedding are images of the squalor of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, as al Gashey recounts his family's expulsion from Israel in 1948, and their subsequent despair. It's only when he joins a guerrilla organization that...
...film we're left with the sadness of Ankie Spitzer and the resolute militancy of Jamal al Gashey. He's proud of what he did in Munich, he tells the camera. It brought the Palestinian cause to the world's attention. And it's hard to not to understand his gruesome thinking, even in these post-Oslo days of mutual recognition. It's noticeable that in all of the footage from 1972, the word "Palestinian" is never used. The gunmen are described simply as "Arab." Indeed, at the time of Munich, the Palestinians were still a forgotten people and Israeli...