Word: teutonicisms
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Travesties' first act is full of the kind of wordplay, witty repartee and the name-dropping of ideas that has always been Stoppard's strength in the past. It's a lightweight world of drawing room comedy in which the foursome of Carr, Tzara and their English girl-friends gets...
His attitude and policies regarding the German states, for example, actually helped drive the Teutonic princes together. As a result, Napoleon helped lay the foundation for German nationalism and France's conqueror, Bismarck.
Fest punctuates his chronological drama with a kind of intermission-"interpolations," he calls them-in which he examines such historical topics as the "great dread" that afflicted Germans during the chaotic Weimar era. Hitler's foolish and criminal rush into war ("War is life," he said), and the F...
I am descended of peasant Irish and large-boned Teutonic stock. Round-faced and broad-hipped, doubtless some day I will be able to drop babies in the field like peas from a pod, and return to the plow before the sun is high in the sky. Right now, being...
There is more cause to snipe at Brooks. Some of his material--especially a sequence involving Count Basie and his Orchestra--is remarkably similar to Woody Allen films; He seems gratuitously to use the sort of language that he could not use in 1968 and 1970 ("Provincial putz" and "Teutonic...