Word: paulus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rubble grew so high that German tanks were unable to roll over it. Through it all, Hitler insisted that his generals stand firm, refusing to allow them to try to break out of the trap and save part of their army. Against his orders, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrendered, and on Feb. 2 the last pockets of resistance collapsed. For three days thereafter, Germans at home heard nothing but mournful commentary and dirges on their radios...
...Europe, Christian-atheist dialogues are becoming almost as commonplace as Roman Catholic-Protestant talks. Germany's Paulus Society, a Catholic intellectual organization, has sponsored three major seminars with European Marxists, plans a fourth next spring. The Vatican's Secretariat for Non-Believers, headed by Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal König, has set up a dozen joint Christian-atheist study groups. On the Marxist side, such leading Red theoreticians as Garaudy and Poland's Adam Schaff have taken part in the Paulus Society seminars. Many European Communist thinkers quote approvingly from the works of French Jesuit...
...quarters were equally shipshape. On the walls of his three-bedroom suite, the same one he had occupied after his gall-bladder surgery 57 weeks earlier, hung paintings of his birthplace, boyhood home and ranch, along with framed quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Harold Macmillan and the Roman consul Paulus, all upholding the axiom-one that is not writ large in Lyndon Johnson's copybook-that a leader who wastes too much time on his critics has little time left for leadership. Across Wisconsin Avenue, the lights were out and the Venetian blinds lowered to a uniform level...
...Dead. Paulus Johannes Tillich's long life on that embattled border shaped his thought. He grew up in that far-off 19th century world where stability and security were taken as a matter of course. His father was a stern Lutheran minister in a small town in northern Germany called Schonfliess; his mother had been a schoolteacher from the gemutlich Rhineland. Little Paul, who later remembered encountering the conception of the Infinite at the age of eight, decided at 16 that philosophy was his field and the Evangelical Lutheran ministry was the gateway...
...President Johnson explained, Paulus went on to say that if anyone did want to give him some free advice, "let him come with me into Macedonia...