Word: prussianly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...German arms received the lethal blow when the United States declared war. They cannot now help but fail. It has been a boast of the Hohenzollerns that each ruler added some bit to the Prussian land. The last of the Hohenzollerns will live to see that long and cruelly-wrested land snatched from him again. Will he remember Dixmonde when he hears the troops of the five great powers crossing the Rhine? Will his heart bleed for Louvain afresh when the allies of democracy march through the plains of Prussia...
ELIOT HOUSE LIBRARY. Consequences of the Franco-Prussian War, a woodwind quintet, 8 p.m., Dec. 1. Baroque Recital, flute, harpsichord and gamba...
Barzel deserves his reputation as a tough and skillful political infighter. The son of a Prussian schoolmaster, the Christian Democratic leader was elected to the Bundestag in 1957 after a short but highly successful career as a civil servant. He quickly became known as the German counterpart of the U.S.'s Communist-hunting Senator Joe McCarthy, reportedly under the influence of his later political partner, Franz Josef Strauss. Barzel founded an anti-Communist organization called "Save Freedom," whose primary activity was a "red book" that accused 453 West German intellectuals and artists of Communist ties. He also asserted that...
Died. Baron Magnus von Braun, 94, former German official and father of Rocketman Wernher von Braun; in Oberaudorf, West Germany. The descendant of Prussian nobility whose genealogy reaches back to the 13th century, the baron served as press spokesman for both Kaiser Wilhelm II and the revolving-door governments of the early Weimar Republic. In 1932 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture by Chancellor Franz von Papen but retired from public life the following year when Hitler came to power...
...said that it has much to do with his notion that symbols have lives of their own and possess a diabolical potential. Yet in The Ogre, in contrast with his last book, Friday, Tournier seems incapable of expressing an idea without sacrificing art to pedagogy. As an old East Prussian aristocrat says just before the Russians do a Götterdammerung on his castle, "When the symbol devours the thing symbolized, when the cross-bearer becomes the crucified, when a malign inversion overthrows phoria, then the end of the world is at hand...