Word: originality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deutschland Uber Alles', the Nazi Party song, symbolizes a growing spirit of nationalism and a renascence of German Nazism." The origin of Deutschland Uber Alles dates back to a time when Nazism was entirely out of the question. The actual Nazi Party song was "Die Fahne Hoch...
...Chaffee Room contains the ballet collection of New Yorker George Chaffee "the finest in America" according to William B. Van Lennep '29, curator of the Theatre Collection. The collection spans the history of ballet from its origin in 1581 up to the present. Among the items included are books, prints, drawings, figurines, and a pair of ballet shoes belonging to ballerina Alicia Markova, one of the foremost of our time...
Last week the party expelled Guingouin, and, as usual, beat its victim to the smear. Said Communist L'Echo du Centre: ". . . For many years he [Guingouin] has been disposing of considerable sums, of indeterminate origin, under party control, which have been accumulated and hidden away in various secret places . . . The total of these clandestine deposits is many millions of francs." Although seven billion francs, seized in the train robbery, had been returned to the French government after liberation, a sum of three billion was still unaccounted...
Wrote the cardinal: "Naziism, an arrogant apostasy from Jesus Christ, distinguished itself for its errors in the cult of the dead . . . Now Divine Providence has eliminated the roots of evil with the annihilation of Naziism, yet some countries-including our own-still preserve practices of Nazi origin, such as the cult of the dead, without discrimination of religious belief, or ... the cult of the Cross of the Fallen, before which cold political homage is rendered . . . The cause has gone, but we go on breathing a pagan, Nazi atmosphere...
...automatic, unconscious and frequently impulsive act . . . an expression of tenseness, usually found in fidgety, high-strung, overactive children . . . The origin of nail-biting is probably in the instinct of the child to put every object in the mouth...