Word: teutonicisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Krenek: Piano Sonata No. 4 (Bernhard Abramowitsch; Music Library). A vintage 1948 work by a composer who made a worldwide splash with his opera, Jonny Spielt Auf, written in a kind of Teutonic honky-tonk style a quarter century ago. The sonata, sometimes using the twelve-tone technique, is full...
Home again in Germany, the vacationists got down to work with the special "Teutonic fury" that is the pride of Germandom and the despair of all its neighbors. August's steel production equaled Britain's (or a rate of 17 million tons a year). Unemployment fell below the...
Along 30 miles of river, on either side of the mining and tourist town of Salida (pop. 5,000), Theo Bock, 43, and Erich Seidel, 26, members of the Munich Kayak Club, scrambled along the bank, noting treacherous crosscurrents, whirlpools, lurking rocks. Their Teutonic thoroughness was warranted.
The Desert Rats is at its best when it ditches its contrived plot and concentrates on hard-hitting scenes of desert warfare pieced out with real newsreel shots (e.g., a Commando raid on a Nazi ammunition dump, Rommel's tanks attacking under cover of a sandstorm). Unusual linguistic touch...
The Germans approached the problem with Teutonic thoroughness. They were on the scene three months in advance, going over the course again & again, measuring gradients and corners. German drivers even got out of their cars to hand-test road surfaces. Leaving little to chance, the Germans saturated the entry lists...