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...missed a deadline they'd never heard of, Phelps may seem rigourous beyond necessity. But Harvard is surely better off not coddling such flagrant calender-scoffers. Send them to Vietnam or M.I.T. As an alumnus, I sympathize with Dean Phelps' firm campaign to keep Harvard free of time-table Schlamperei and the crypto-inverts who practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME-TABLE SCHLAMPEREI | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...most important words in the Viennese patois is Schlamperei, meaning, roughly, negligence or sloppiness. The word has long applied to government, often to business and sometimes to music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cruising with the Viennese | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...judge from its first U.S. appearances, the famed Vienna Philharmonic, the world's second oldest symphony orchestra,* has never heard of Schlamperei. It performs a feat that is the essence of all art but seems to be becoming increasingly rare, in Vienna or elsewhere; it combines heart with precision, sentiment with discipline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cruising with the Viennese | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

Although 90% of its people are Catholic, the Ostmark is not today a good Catholic land. Vienna's most famed characteristic has long been "Schlamperei" (slackness), and probably no more than 40% of Austrians are practicing Catholics. In Vienna last week, good Catholics worshiped timidly under the eyes of police, who also watched narrowly those who read their church bulletin boards, pasted with posters urging them to marry in the church. In his palace Cardinal Innitzer switched on his radio, listened to an open-air rally at which 100,000 Nazis shouted "Pfui Innitzer!" and "Hang the black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pfui Innitzer! | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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