Word: teutonicisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eliot's cautious humanism was not so unrealistic, says Bartley, as the "latterday optimism" of President Pusey, which expects help "from only one kind of contemporary thinker: the flashy existentialist or teutonic theologian who ministers to the 'Big Questions' with big answers and bigger 'systems...
But on Ivy's back porch, for forty-two remaining sophomores, the suspense has reached its most pitiless climax. Since almost everyone who was inside has gone home now and the porch has long been growing chilly, the one-hundred percenters are permitted to move into the Ivy dining room...
These engravings possess a "brutality," if it can be called that, which surpasses any graphic intensity the contemporary Italians had to offer. But that graphic quality is the servant of a spirituality and poetry which makes the word brutal a sacrilege. Durer is as intellectual as the Expressionists are emotional...
Horrifying Anonymity. With plodding determination, Novelist Ott follows a class of enlisted sailors through a tour of minesweeper duty, a session of midshipmen's school and a chilling succession of raiding cruises with the North Atlantic submarine wolf packs (Ott, 34, began the war as a minesweeper seaman, ended...
Ever since the Knights of the Teutonic Order stormed ironshod over northeastern Europe, German military commanders have made their marks as rigid disciplinarians who brooked no nonsense from anyone, civilians in particular. In Bonn last week, ambitious young Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss made headline news by turning the tables...