Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That doctrine rests firmly on the basis of eighteenth century Newtonian science. According to that conception, there are certain laws in nature which man can learn through experiment. For Rusk, the experience at Munich in 1938 represents a "laboratory exercise in the anatomy and physiology of aggression" from which certain "eternal truths" emerged, namely, that "aggression" must be stopped by force. Modern scientific thought would hardly call its laws "eternal truths," yet Rusk continues to pride himself on the scientific nature of his thinking...
...determine whether there had been a national security leak in the friendship of 36-year-old German Party Girl Gerda Munsinger with ministers of the former Conservative government. So far, the evidence was about as scant as the party-girl costumes Gerda had donned for cheesecake photos in Munich...
...that he knows the rules so well, and is so cautious about breaking them. Influence of Lowell and Jarrell have been absorbed and should be purged; the relation to some of Lowell's hospital poems, like "A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich," is too evident. And his literary interest in madness leads him into a crude final section about Christopher Smart, which is regrettable...
Baum is not alone. With the implicit consent of Julius Cardinal DÖpfner, a committee of moral theologians in the archdiocese of Munich drew up a message of guidance for marriage lecturers on the birth-control problem. Their recommendation was that couples who practice contraception "not lightly and habitually but rather as a regrettable emergency solution" could receive Holy Communion...
...Pevsner. His brother Alexei Pevsner, a Soviet scientist, recalls that the family in the remote Russian town of Briansk always said of Naum: "He does not go through the streets but over the rooftops." The question was on what rooftop he would finally perch. Sent abroad to study in Munich in 1910, Naum switched from medicine to the natural sciences, to engineering, finally decided on sculpture...