Word: ters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that democracy provides. People wore Sabbath clothes, and there was a Sabbath-like quiet in the air. Some 800,000 voters, half of whom cannot speak or write the language of the country with any fluency, entered the polling booth, carefully selected a slip bearing that let ter of the Hebrew alphabet symbolizing their chosen party, inserted it into a thin brown envelope and, emerging, dropped it into the ballot box in the presence of election inspectors...
...polarities of heaven and earth, man and woman, light and darkness, life and death. With their productions of all of Wagner's major works unveiled in previous seasons, the producers this time tried their hand at the youthful but never completely successful Flying Dutchman - with little bet ter luck than others have had. Somehow, the old seafaring legend failed to fit in with the stark, abstract staging technique that has been brilliantly successful with other Wagner operas. Musically, Bayreuth's Dutchman was superior. Listeners were especially pleased with the Metropolitan Opera's statuesque Soprano Astrid Varnay...
...here to represent the U.S. to foreign countries. We try to make a good impression everywhere." To make it bet ter, they rehearse two or three hours after breakfast every day, and again after lunch and dinner. Even when sightseeing, they make an impression. One girl, faced with an untranslatable menu, left her table, buttonholed a Frenchman on the street, brought him back and got him to translate the menu while other diners googled...
...ttingen's 5,000 students remained off campus, educators and scientists flooded the state government with protests. The West German press blasted him with editorials, devoting more space to his case than to Khrushchev's visit to Belgrade. Said the respected Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Schlüter is not accused of a false belief of yesterday but of wrong actions today. These actions are opposed to the idea of freedom." Last week, bowing to this wave of protest, Schlüter resigned as Minister of Culture...
Schlüter turned to politics, and displayed a blatant affinity for Naziism. "National Socialism is the most healthy movement in Germany since the turn of the century." he is reported to have shouted from a political platform. In the ultranationalist region of Lower Saxony and in the disorder of early postwar politics, such demagoguery served him well. But he always knew when to shift his line, when to recall his Jewish blood and pose as a victim of the Nazis...