Word: prussians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nightingale. Like many people with long practice at being interviewed, Williams tended to repeat well-rehearsed witticisms. But the flavor is authentic, especially in such inverted cliches as "Symbols are just a way of saying something more directly" or "Miss Edwina (his mother) can best be described as a Prussian general -- an inefficient Prussian general." His phrase turning is ornamented $ with borrowings from other writers ("I like Dorothy Parker's line 'Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress' ") and fellow melancholics ("Tallulah said . . . 'If I had my life to live over again, I'd make the same mistakes...
...Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., came Wernher von Braun, 45, the exuberant Prussian who had fathered the German V-2 rockets. He had been among those who rushed into American hands when the Third Reich collapsed. Von Braun souped up his Redstone missile, put a tiny satellite dubbed Explorer on top and sent it into orbit. There was no turning back...
...replacing the body with a panel of senior military officers, drawn from the ranks of generals and admirals with extensive experience as leaders of the unified command groups. Any reform is likely to be fought by the individual services and some legislators and Administration officials who fear "a Prussian-style general staff." But Admiral Crowe seems ideally suited to overcoming such obstacles. Originally a submariner, he earned a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton, and his posts have been as much diplomatic as military. He is the first JCS Chairman in 32 years to come from a unified command (the Pacific...
...provided legal and theoretical justifications for the Hindenburg government's dictatorial emergency decree system. Schmitt warned against a Nazi takeover, but his right-wing views became identified with the movement, and when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Schmitt opportunistically switched with the tide, becoming Prussian state councilor under Hermann Goring. He avoided prosecution as a war criminal at Nuremberg and later largely kept his vow to retreat "into the security of silence...
...that Americans have now given Hollein his honorific due. The U.S., he says, has influenced his architecture most of all. He arrived at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1958 but found its "Prussian dogma" of modernism uncongenial. Breaking free, Hollein bought a Chevy and drove, covering 50,000 miles in a year and a half, just when Nabokov's Humbert Humbert and Kerouac's romantics were on the road. Recalls Hollein: "It was just incredible to me the space you have here, the sense of freedom." Seeing the West provoked a kind of epiphany. A generation ago, before pizazz...