Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinian, I have always supported stern measures by the Arabs against Israel, refusing to believe that the Zionist state would ever return anything...
...West German terrorism results not only from the radicalization of the German university but from the continued authoritarianism of the German family. In parallel studies of 1,500 American and German students, Rothman and Lichter discovered that radicals in both countries had similar family backgrounds: fathers they saw as stern and punitive, mothers as distant and cold. Says Lichter: "The essence of the relationship was reduced to respect for the parent because of his power, rather than love." At the same time, a whole generation of West German youth grew up in the dark about their fathers' wartime activities...
...Isaac Stern, violinist, in praise of Livingston L. Biddle Jr., the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts: "My Russian friends tell me it's not the ministry of culture that you worry about. It's the culture of the minister...
That very day Paley ordered staged reverses stopped. But his stern edict has since been relaxed, so that if a Mike Wallace interview now takes place with only one instead of two cameras, Wallace can be photographed afterward asking the same questions again or reacting angrily, moodily or laughingly-so long as these reverses are "made in the presence of the interviewee" or with his consent...
...walk up the stairs he grabs my ankle and stuffs me into his sack. He sits on my mouth all the way home and later, sitting by his stove, eats hot noodles from my naked belly." Still, such moments are well worth enduring for the author's stern intelligence and overriding awareness of social forces. In his own eccentric way, the city planner is trying to understand the dispiriting decay of his time and his place. He wants to reconcile his early socialist ideals with the "society of centralized reallocation" that he and his fellow bureaucrats have engineered...