Word: teutonicisms
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In 1961, at the age of 51, Saarinen suddenly died just as his growing firm was moving into a Teutonic mansion in Hamden, Conn. Roche and Dinkeloo took over the business and kept the Saarinen promise. "What Saarinen taught us," says Roche, who became an American citizen in 1964, "is...
This is not to say that Little Me is not still funny, but one tends to laugh at it more than with it. In the original, Belle's many lovers and husbands were all played by Sid Caesar in a performance of virtuosic hilarity. Here they are divided between...
It is fitting that this biographical fragment ends with Death in Venice. In that work Mann learned to treat death, madness, self-destruction at the level of genius. Yet when the artist stood up from his desk to talk about his work, he could barely survive his own respectability. For...
THE GERMANS: Teutonic angst, presumably, makes the Germans the gloomiest about their health. They worry about job security and promotion and are least proud of their nationality. Additionally, West Germans indicate that they are the most intolerant toward extremists on the right and left, foreign workers, cult religions and even...
Suzman, on the other hand, is given a relatively easier task in the role of Freida. Though adding an unnecessarily, harsh teutonic accent, she brings dimension to Freida that only heightens the absence of a strong Lawrence opposite her. She explains her passion and makes clear her strange love for...