Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great choir before him. Some of the choristers didn't even need scores. Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 82, was a charter member who had been singing in the choir ever since its founder, J. Fred Wolle, came home to Bethlehem 50 years ago from his studies in Munich, determined to dedicate himself and Bethlehem to Bach. Two others had been singing for 47 years, and more than 40 had been in the choir for at least 25 years. Most of them came from Bethlehem and surrounding towns of the Lehigh Valley...
...Lunch in Munich. Foote's Handbook for Spies is an unpretentious, understated account of the job he did for his Russian employers. Readers looking for cloak-&-dagger excitement will not find it here. But the lack of phony tension and climax gives the book its own quiet tone of truth. Writes Foote: "The only excitement a spy is likely to have is his last, when he is finally run to earth." Foote was run to earth just once, fortunately for him in neutral Switzerland...
...assorted neighbors. Taken by itself as a work of architecture, the building is a masterpiece. Dean Hudnut of the School of Design calls it "one of the most subtle and original works in the University, a very clever fusion of three German traditions." The building, designed by a Munich architect, manages to gather under one roof a happy combination of a Baroque court, a Romanesque hall, and a Gothic chapel...
...probably wouldn't know a military secret from a comic book, and had blundered across the border without entry papers; it seemed almost certain that the Czechs were simply using them as a way of getting even. Since the first of the year, a U.S. military commission at Munich had sentenced a series of Czech spies to long prison terms...
...your "Report from Munich" you quote U.S. Governor van Wagoner as having said: "Prison records aren't always bad politically," excusing thus his policy of giving office to convicted Nazis. The philosophy behind these words ... is the very essence of Naziism and-as many think-also of Communism. You cannot cure Germany if you bring to her democracy only as a political form without any ethical basis. Opportunism",, in whatever form it disguises itself, must in the end inevitably lead to nihilism and annihilation...