Word: spiegel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monde, the treaty was a "turning point in the history of modern Europe." Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, called it an accomplishment of "farsighted boldness." Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the French publisher-politician, saw the pact as a "passport to the East, a preface to a policy of industrial penetration of the East by the West." German Historian Karl Kaiser said that it constitutes the first phase of a new security system in Europe...
...sheer joy of doing something naughty and getting away with it." Says Carl Boockholdt, a boutique operator in Indianapolis: "It could be a parody type of feeling, to signify that the red, white and blue shouldn't be such a heavy symbol as it's been." Richard Spiegel, a member of the Boston cast of Hair, says simply: "This generation really has no sacred objects...
...recently nominated for Vice-President of the American Institute of Planners. He founded and directed the Urban Field Service, which allows students to receive academic credit by working for community groups. The Urban Field Service has been praised by such diverse sources as Harvard's Wilson Report, Der Spiegel and Dean Kilbridge, who described U.F.S. as "one of the finest programs in the School...
Never before had the myth of German cleanliness been questioned so rudely, and the Bundesrepublik erupted in indignant protest. In a full-page advertisement in West Germany's weekly magazine Der Spiegel, a family of three was shown in impeccable dress-but all with pigs' faces. Beneath them were the words: "This year, in the average German family, the child will wear his underwear four days, the wife five days and the husband seven days." The ad was placed by the obviously phony "Action Committee for Fresh Underwear," presumably an invention of German soft-goods manufacturers...
Sober periodicals such as the intellectual weekly Die Zeit questioned the ad's statistics, and the business journal Handelsblatt attacked it as "a model of tastelessness." Popular reaction was less restrained. Der Spiegel was deluged by bitter letters of complaint...