Word: teutonicisms
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The "uncouth country bumpkin with decidedly dubious scholarly credentials," as Historian Richard Fox characterizes him, was the young Reinhold Niebuhr. Over the next four decades he was to become the nation's best-known theologian and political preacher, his Teutonic scowl etched on the face of 20th century American Protestantism...
Wagener does not agree with everything his leader says, but he cannot get over the way it is said: "His words expressed a wealth of ideas and a view of things and their connections that at times sounded as if they came from another world." And so on, revealing the...
Cinema aficionados will recall what Kurosawa did with them in Throne of Blood. Probably they gave Eisenstein his idea for the Teutonic knights' helmets in the battle on the ice in Alexander Nevsky. Certainly they were the source for Darth Vader. Hence, if one were to pick a single exhibition...
Frayn's technique is a fluid mix of re-enactment and narration, docudrama and memory play. Most of the story is told by Güillaume, a Teutonic Sammy Glick who worked his way into Brandt's confidence--and passed along everything he saw and heard to his East German contact...
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