Word: rhinelander
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...tough, uncompromising democrat of 70, unfazed by the horrors of defeat (he had witnessed the decline of both Bismarck and the Kaiser). When the Gestapo released him during the Götterdämmerung of the Allied advance, Adenauer trekked circuitously through the flooded Rhineland to his home at Rhöndorf, then sat out a vicious artillery duel between U.S. troops at the Remagen bridgehead and Wehrmacht gunners who were dug in directly behind his house. Walking in his garden one Sunday, Adenauer came under fire. "About 300 yards away, I saw a shell hurtling towards me," he writes...
...freer life, and just as the Berliner Ensemble was completing a triumphant London engagement, he chose to defect. He easily received a West German passport, a temporary home with his married half-brother outside Cologne, even a job offer. Yet, only eight days after he arrived in the Rhineland's Lorelei-land, he returned to East Berlin. His brother tried to understand. "Christian obviously stood in conflict between his loyalty to the company he loved and his desire to quit East Germany," he said. "I recall a similar experience. In 1945 I was cut off from my armored outfit...
...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...
...brief, the dating rests on two major pieces of physical evidence. First, the scribe who drew the map and copied the text used a writing style known as Oberrheinische Bastarda, or Upper Rhineland bastard (or cursive) book hand, which is confined to the period 1415-1460. Since the handwriting is in fully developed form and free of accretions from styles that developed later, a date in the 1440s seems most likely. Second, the parchment and paper used can be traced to the same period, and a unique spectacled head of a bull used as a watermark on the paper shows...
...cheerily connived with the Nazis. Yet Böll lacks the slashing, ultimately healing fury of Günter Grass. The Clown comes to an abrupt end when the hero, stripped of hope, puts on his whiteface makeup and goes out to beg among the costumed crowds of the Rhineland's Fasching revels...