Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War I, four old empires died: the Russian, Prussian, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian. The rot spread to Asia, and from the Middle East to Indo-China, the surge towards independence stirred among a billion people. World War II rocked the remaining empires: Japan's was liquidated; so was Mussolini's. In the past ten years, 600 million Arabs and Asians have won political independence, established ten new sovereign states.* France, expelled from Syria and Lebanon after World War II, is on the way out of Indo-China. The once prosperous Dutch East Indies has become the unprosperous...
...unpretentious as the characters of his paintings -and as much a victim of hard knocks as they. Before 1943 he taught drawing at the Fine Arts School in Kaunas, the capital of his native Lithuania. Then the Nazis shipped him off as a slave laborer to an East Prussian farm. There Kasiulis milked cows and painted portraits of local German bigwigs, a service for which he was rewarded with extra food rations. After the war, helped by sympathetic Allied officers, he made his way to Paris, where he got a job as a nightwatchman. By night he patrolled a radio...
...Luftwaffe general, Smiling Al Kesselring lacked the dash of a Rommel, the Prussian rigor of Von Rundstedt, or the inventive flair of a Guderian; yet he fashioned a career almost as brilliant as theirs. At war's start he commanded a single air fleet in Poland, later bossed all German air forces in North Africa, took charge of the Mediterranean theater in the slow German retreat up the boot of Italy, and ended the war as commander in chief in the West. As told in Kesselring's foot-slogging style, much of this story borders...
...says Carson, is the growing preoccupation with the present, fostered largely by the social sciences. "The teaching of history before the first world war has been indicted for . . . not keeping the subject matter up to date. The history student of 1910 ended his study of history with the Franco-Prussian War, or thereabouts ... As a consequence, we are told, the generation in 1914 was badly prepared for the social cataclysm...
...Prussian - born philosopher -- called Protestantism's number one philosopher two years ago by "Time" magazine--has been at Union since 1933, when his professorship at the University of Frankfurt was taken from him by the Nazis...