Word: uber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exceptions received the weakest performances. Brahms' intensely sorrowful "Warum ist das Licht gegeben" sounded disjointed, with the seemingly endless phrases of the first section losing momentum every measure or two; only the final chorale generated a genuine mood. The men's performance of Schubert's "Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern" showed complete insensitivity to Goethe's colorful text...
...sing their allegiance "to the King of Spain." At least a dozen nations have had anthems to the tune of God Save the Queen-including Germany during World War I. West Germany now sings only the third verse of what through Hitler's time was known as Deutschland Uber Alles, and even that was borrowed from Austria. Two East European nations are now revising their own postwar anthems, written to please their Russian masters. Rumania is cutting out the line about the "liberating Soviet people," and Bulgaria is bent on sinking the "great sun of Lenin and Stalin which...
...curses at Hitler still ringing in Germany's ears, says Thielicke, "we still do not feel free to use a word like Vaterland uninhibitedly for fear of being misunderstood. And because we have a complex about it, many of us are even embarrassed by our national anthem - Deutschland uber Alles, though its original meaning was simply a child's declaration of love for his mother: 'You are the most beautiful land of all, with your castles, rivers and forests.'" Germans who have broken their relationships with their symbols, he adds, have also broken the relationship with...
...Having sweated out (literally-shirtsleeve sessions in the university's steaming Aula-and figuratively-ponderous theological peregrinations Uber Rechtfertigungslehre) 14 days of world Lutheranism in Helsinki, I snatched a copy of TIME at London's Central Airport to see if the Anglicans fared any better. The description of the Anglican theological stance (more like the twist) fairly leaped out at me. "Not the brain-numbing abstractions of Germany's sages, but an urbane lucidity spiced-a la C. S. Lewis -with literate Oxbridge wit." Well could we have used such a catalyst...
Different flaws appeared when the choruses separated. The Glee Club's rendition of Schubert's Gesang Der Geister Uber Den Wassern handled admirably the contrasts of stanzas, but the tenors had a thin tone and blended poorly. The five piece string orchestra did have trouble with intonation, but it was a welcome addition...